Example Sentences

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In gum-gray England, the upper classes are "unaggressively handsome, that is to say, somewhat wanting, like an underdeveloped photograph."

From Time Magazine Archive

We had many improving conversations, by which I profited more than he; and he impressed me, like Englishmen of every class, as standing steadfastly but unaggressively upon the rights of his station.

From London Films by Howells, William Dean

The backs of the leather-bound volumes in the many book-cases gleamed also, but unaggressively, with the mellow sheen—as might fancifully be figured—of the ripe and tolerant wisdom their pages enshrined.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas

But they made it clear, quite unaggressively, that the real point was to go alone.

From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud