unpretentious
adjective
not pretentious; modest; without ostentatious display; plain.
unpretentiously
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a word derived from
unpretentious.
Example Sentences
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Platts-Mills’s film is unpretentiously atmospheric: The thick Cockney accents require subtitles, and Audience, an East End prog band, supplies a credible score.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
She remains endlessly, unpretentiously true to form — even her recipe for grilled lobster involves frozen orange juice concentrate.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2021
One point taken, and another unpretentiously submitted: Audrey Van Horne is a superstar.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2018
Back in medieval Spain, both aristocrats and peasants drank it, and it retains the aura of something at once sophisticated and unpretentiously folksy.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2013
It was perched unpretentiously on the edge of a donga, one of many similar shacks on Eighth Avenue.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
