unostentatiouslyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsli/, /(ˌ)ʌnɒst(ə)nˈteɪʃəsli/, U.S. /ˌənˌɑst(ə)nˈteɪʃəsli/ In an unostentatiousness manner; with modesty, restraint, or understatement.
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the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adverb]
lowlyc1350
demurelyc1400
lowlily1415
simplyc1430
murely1474
littlya1500
modestly1569
unpretendingly1701
unambitiously1746
meeverly1757
unpresumptuously1758
unostentatiously1771
unconceitedly1812
unpretentiously1852
unassertively1981
1771 Monthly Rev. Sept. 170 That indulgence..which..we daily, though silently and unostentatiously, exercise towards others.
1795 V. Knox Christian Philos. I. xxxix. 281 He is silently and unostentatiously happy.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. vi. 228 The preparations were conducted as unostentatiously as possible.
1891 S. R. Driver Introd. Lit. Old Test. 428 How a religious spirit may be carried unostentatiously into the conduct of daily life.
1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley xxix. 331 One of the most important things these days is to live unostentatiously.
1989 C. Harman S. Townsend Warner: Biogr. vi. 263 She was unostentatiously devout and always sincere.
2001 N.Y. Mag. 2 Apr. 45/1 She has taken pains to wear her three-man Secret Service entourage as unostentatiously as possible.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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