unostentatiously
- a word derived from ostentatious.
Example Sentences
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At least one couple, Drohman related, were quietly wed with their ordained minister and witnesses unostentatiously seated at a table in the back room.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2022
The New Jersey scenery changed unostentatiously to Pennsylvania scenery.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017
“Dark Star” reveals Giger’s bizarre home, filled with skulls, statues, books, paintings, gigantic watches and, unostentatiously on a bookshelf, his golden Academy Award statuette.
From Washington Times • May 24, 2015
It helps that Thompson has all the skills the form requires—acuity of observation, unostentatiously lovely prose, familiarity with despair—and that, substantively speaking, he’s interrogating rather than indulging in nostalgia.
From Slate • Dec. 3, 2014
A telephone message was quietly whispered to him and, after hesitating a moment, Davis unostentatiously slipped on his overcoat and left the place.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
