unpretending

How To Use unpretending In A Sentence

• He was plainly and unpretendingly dressed in a suit of dark gray, and I stepped right up to him and said: "Mr. President, is this you? Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege"
• While Mrs. Vesey and Miss Halcombe were richly clad (each in the manner most becoming to her age), the first in silver-grey, and the second in that delicate primrose-yellow colour which matches so well with a dark complexion and black hair, Miss Fairlie was unpretendingly and almost poorly dressed in plain white muslin. The Woman in White
• She created a ‘cottage-home, plain and unpretending.’
• Employed with collateral means calculated to shake the nerves and excite the imagination, mesmerism causes the same variety of convulsive and violent seizures which extremes of fanatical frenzy excite; when it is employed in a gentle form and manner, with accessaries that only soothe and tranquillise, the most plain and unpretending form of trance quietly steps upon the scene. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
• Morris described it as ‘unobtrusive, quiet and retiring, without being shy, humble and homely in its deportment and habits, sober and unpretending in its dress.’
• He journeyed to Washington, so unpretendingly, so carefully, saying no harsh word; full of love for all the people of his vast domain. The Nation's Sacrifice
• Fairlie was unpretendingly and almost poorly dressed in plain white muslin. The Woman in White
• The ossified ‘bloom’ which ‘Nothing Poem’ offers as an icon of hope, defines the extraordinary spiritual demands exerted by Capildeo's book: ‘unkind and / unpretending, / at each point seeming limitless, grained and ablaze.’
• He was an uneducated man, a plain unpretending plodding man,’ a neighbor remembered; one who ‘attended to his work, peaceable - quiet and good natured.’
• My mission is to work on unpretendingly and without troubling myself about advancement. Letters