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- adjective Not
intimidating ; not making onefearful .
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Examples
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French native David Malbequi, formerly of the BLT Market, has devised a seasonal menu that is, like its space, elegant yet unintimidating.
French Accents Monica Williams 2011
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"We work on unintimidating foods that mothers and dads can put together pretty easily," she says.
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All the nicknames are irrelevant in every way that doesn't matter and not in the one way that does matter: they sound unintimidating when normal people hear them on the news.
Mars Rover Curiosity Name Doesn't Inpsire Our Readers - NASA Watch 2009
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French native David Malbequi, formerly of the BLT Market, has devised a seasonal menu that is, like its space, elegant yet unintimidating.
French Accents Monica Williams 2011
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These seats of power were in fact inspired by houses (fazendas, those colonial Brazilian, low-slung plantation houses with their colonnaded verandas), which helps account for their unintimidating grandeur.
A Vision in Concrete 2008
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These seats of power were in fact inspired by houses (fazendas, those colonial Brazilian, low-slung plantation houses with their colonnaded verandas), which helps account for their unintimidating grandeur.
A Vision in Concrete 2008
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Unsurprisingly, it's a pretty bog-standard painting and drawing package, with a bright, cartoonish interface, designed to be thoroughly unintimidating, especially for kids, uDraw's target audience.
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It's taken me a long time to realise how much I love short novels — those unintimidating, pencil-thick volumes which say: Pick me up.
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Manford – whose standup experience or inclinations perhaps equip him better for off-piste work – fared better, but together they are as warm, unintimidating and friendly as the programme requires.
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It made the encounter with DeLillo, a giant of the contemporary American literary landscape, seem almost normal, intriguing and unintimidating.
Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear' 2010
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