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“She is so unvain that she does not overly care about leaving behind a blueprint for the West 4.0,” said Mr. Kornelius, her biographer.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2018

Ms. Binoche, effortlessly charismatic and ruthlessly unvain, has no investment in the character’s likability.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2018

There’s something wonderfully unvain about this approach, but there’s something odd, too, about the lack of discrimination – Nelson’s apparent indifference, or obliviousness, to the mediocrity of some of what he has released.

From The Guardian • May 16, 2015

It's a ferociously unvain performance – feral-faced, stiff round the torso, left hand forever lodged in hoodie pocket; a movement born from his discovery that Zuckerberg is an expert fencer.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2010

"You mustn't make her vain," said Anna-Rose, trying not to smile all over her face, while Anna-Felicitas remained as manifestly unvain as a person intent on something else would be.

From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth