All 4 Uses
unassuming
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A Spool of Blue Thread
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- The other girls had had their hearts set on pre-med students, but evidently one look at unassuming Hugh, with his sawdust-colored beard and his tool belt slung low around his hips, had made Jeannie feel instantly at home.†
p. 106.6 *unassuming = humble
- Next door was almost the only house as unassuming as theirs was, and the people she was referring to had been renting it for at least as long as the Whitshanks had been renting theirs.†
p. 135.5
- Jeannie was biddable and unassuming; she lacked Amanda's acidity.†
p. 156.4
- The church turned out to be a small, unassuming white cube topped with more of a cupola than a steeple, squeezed between a ma-and-pa grocery store and a house already decorated to the nines for Halloween.†
p. 183.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(unassuming) humble -- not arrogant, showy, or self-important
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)