unstarry
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Allen said of Kay: "He's the most unstarry person I know... he's an absolute dream."
From BBC ● May 21, 2018
Small and unstarry with a cast of four, “Saint Joan” could easily have gone unnoticed.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2016
He is our most unstarry star, no longer needing to hunt for our good will.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2015
On both occasions, he was notably unstarry, simply turning up when asked and doing his best to be supportive in a commendably low-key way.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2011
In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo.
From Time Magazine Archive
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