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/ʌnˌɒstəntˈeɪʃəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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not ostentatious
his unostentatious office
unostentatious elegance -
exhibiting restrained good taste
the room is pleasant and understated
How To Use unostentatious In A Sentence
- An unostentatiously devout man, that is where he would, in different circumstances, undoubtedly have been. DARE CALL IT TREASON
- He will be sadly missed because he was a very genuine person who helped with charitable causes in an unostentatious way.
- Outwardly quiet and unostentatious, he was a deeply thoughtful man who shared his father's fascination with the complex iconography of ecclesiastical architecture and trappings.
- It was a remarkably idle and unobtrusive shop and yet money flowed into it without stint, mysteriously and unostentatiously, the conduits of its flow being certain modest and retiring Arab visitors in long brown or white _haiks_, with check cotton head-dresses girt with ropes of camel-hair, who collogued with the honest tradesman and departed as silently and unobtrusively as they came .... Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
- The Secret Millionaire9pm, Channel 4Chris Brown is a gadget-obsessed, self-confessed geek who has made millions from his travel website, but lives an unostentatious, family-based lifestyle and wants to put his wealth to good use. The weekend's TV highlights
- Now in his early fifties, Jobs live quietly privately, with his wife and four kids in a large, unostentatious house in suburban Palo Alto.
- Public tours reveal the unostentatious shipboard lifestyle of the Royals on voyages out to the British Empire and up to Scotland each summer.
- Also immaculately turned out in civilian threads, he disclosed to me his large wardrobe of expensive but unostentatious clothes, all of which have been imported from the best tailors in London.
- Caroline Quentin is unostentatious but very convincing as the central character Maggie Mee.
- It's the sort of solid, unostentatious compound, hidden behind walls, where Afghanistan's old upper-middle class lived in the 1960s and '70s, the Afghan equivalent of WASP. The Man Who Might Have Been 'King'