Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking pretension or affectation; modest.
- adjective Not elaborate, ornate, or ostentatious: synonym: plain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not pretentious; making no claim to distinction; modest.
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- adjective
simple ,humble , notpretentious ,plain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking pretension or affectation
- adjective exhibiting restrained good taste
- adjective not ostentatious
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Stacey, whom everyone describes as unpretentious, refused to drive her new Mercedes, instead sticking with an old forest-green Chrysler minivan.
Dr. Nicholas and Mr. Hyde McLean, Bethany 2008
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Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
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Carly Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
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When he arrived in Silicon Valley in 2005, brought in from Ohio to lead Hewlett-Packard after the stormy tenure of former CEO and now US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
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I love the idea of unpretentious art as anti-, but also non-anti-.
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He is as delightful as he is unpretentious, which is rare in a man so celebrated as he is, and she has lost none of her fascinations, although she is a grandmother.
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Saturday January 26 2008 and it's 4am at home in Eccleston, a sleepy town in west Lancashire, north of Manchester and west of Liverpool - nowhere in particular, anonymous and unpretentious, which is exactly as I like it.
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It was like three minutes three-minute pop songs that were kind of unpretentious and very basically about love, and just being a teenager and having a good time, you know.
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Will be interesting to see how her 'unpretentious' lack of competency plays out among the great masses/independents.
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Many of the pictures and symbols were helpful to the Democrats 'cause: a family that clearly was from the real America -- Wallace and Bobby, his parents; a wife, Elizabeth, who looks like the kind of unpretentious person who doesn't mind celebrating her anniversary at Wendy's; a demure daughter and two towheaded tots.
Digital Dispatches 2007
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