All 3 Uses of
unassuming
in
Bleak House
- My mother has a little property, which takes the form of a small life annuity, upon which she lives in an independent though unassuming manner in the Old Street Road.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- As he stands at his door in Cook's Court in his grey shop-coat and black calico sleeves, looking up at the clouds, or stands behind a desk in his dark shop with a heavy flat ruler, snipping and slicing at sheepskin in company with his two 'prentices, he is emphatically a retiring and unassuming man.†
Chpt 10-12
- Then is she kind and cruel, stately and unassuming, various, beautifully wilful.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(unassuming) humble -- especially of someone who has reason to be proud