Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unostentatious manner; without show, parade, or ostentation.
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- adverb In an
unostentatious manner
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Examples
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Keeping the variable-sword unostentatiously in sight, he closed the cover on the kzin's crash couch and flipped a knife switch.
Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970
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Keeping the variable-sword unostentatiously in sight, he closed the cover on the kzin's crash couch and flipped a knife switch.
Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970
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As for the staging, it's unostentatiously right, a mixture of handsomely choreographed group movement and headlong swordplay cheers to Edgar Landa, the fight director.
Love, Fresh and New Terry Teachout 2011
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In one of the keenest observations of Mays, Daley wrote: βIt just seemed as though he could do nothing unostentatiously.β
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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Julian comes from a privileged background, the only son of wealthy parents but quietly, unostentatiously bothered by his lack of relationship to his father.
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His hair neatly combed, and unostentatiously dressed.
Archive 2009-10-01 David McDuff 2009
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Not only is Ed Shea's staging unostentatiously illuminating -- he makes every gesture tell -- but Evan Kinnane and Amy Thompson, who play the Flood children, both give wholly believable performances that are impressively and gratifyingly free of self-consciousness.
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He therefore gave a signal by a low whistle, and a confidential officer, well mounted, approached him, who attended him in his ride, though unostentatiously, and at some distance.
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In the context of discussing the Service of the Word, the manual says, "If, nonetheless, a presentation of the gifts at the altar is made, it is done simply and unostentatiously, without special music, or gestures, or prayers."
To elevate or not to elevate Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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The book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice is resourceful in plotting and smart of dialogue, and Des McAnuff's direction is unostentatiously devastating.
November 2005 2005
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