showy
adjective
making an imposing display.
unshowy
-
a word derived from
showy.
Example Sentences
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For Carroll, when love is treated as fate, people become less willing to do the unshowy work that actually keeps love alive.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
This was the steady, unshowy labor that made Cowley what his previous biographer Hans Bak called a “middleman” of letters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Mr. Skarsgård’s equivocal and unshowy performance—he’s a master of acting without seeming to be acting—creates an ambiguity around Gustav, craftily rendered by the two screenwriters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
The material could easily have tilted into melodramatic TV territory, but Redford handled it with a steady, unshowy touch, letting pain seep through pauses, glances and the things left unsaid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
In almost all English histories dealing with this period his steadiness and solid unshowy qualities are contrasted with Essex's flightiness and failure, to the natural disadvantage of the latter.
From The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless
