presuming
adjective
unpresuming
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a word derived from
presuming.
Example Sentences
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Durbin’s unpresuming, unfailingly courteous, thoroughly Midwestern personality has played against his interests at times.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2022
During the past hour or two he had shown himself reasonably intelligent, unpresuming, without offensiveness of any kind.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
Your gift may be given in an unpresuming way.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
He was a trifle crude, yes; but kind, gentle, unpresuming.
From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Emerson Hough
He was a worthy kind-hearted man, possessed of more than an average of reading and good sense; generally respected, and of unpresuming manners.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
