assumed
adjective
adopted in order to deceive; fictitious; pretended; feigned.
unassumed
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a word derived from
assumed.
Example Sentences
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In the finished film Rogers' unassumed self-consciousness helps to make sharper his portrait of an Oklahoma oil man who takes his family to Paris to get background.
From Time Magazine Archive
That they were clever she did not doubt; they had for one thing his own air of unassumed ease, and she could not but feel they had some claim to literary art.
From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald
But she laughed at them with mirth that was so evidently unassumed that they blushed to their ears.
From The Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy
"I have no pretension to abilities like yours, Mr. Massingbred," said Scanlan, with unassumed modesty.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
With unassumed unconcern, but with deliberate intention, he was accompanied to Barracks 1 or 2, to see with his own eyes a typical illustration of the living quarters provided within the camp.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
