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Definition of unpretending in English: unpretendingadjective ʌnprɪˈtɛndɪŋˌənprəˈtɛndɪŋ archaic Not pretentious or false. Example sentencesExamples - The Coles had been settled some years in Highbury, and were very good sort of people-friendly, liberal, and unpretending; but, on the other hand, they were of low origin, in trade, and only moderately genteel.
- 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.’
- 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.’
- She created a ‘cottage-home, plain and unpretending.’
- With heart and hand, Our country's cause defending, We'll meet the foe, With valor unpretending.
Rhymes ending, impending, microlending, uncomprehending, unoffending Definition of unpretending in US English: unpretendingadjectiveˌənprəˈtendiNGˌənprəˈtɛndɪŋ archaic Not pretentious or false; genuine. Example sentencesExamples - 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.’
- The Coles had been settled some years in Highbury, and were very good sort of people-friendly, liberal, and unpretending; but, on the other hand, they were of low origin, in trade, and only moderately genteel.
- With heart and hand, Our country's cause defending, We'll meet the foe, With valor unpretending.
- 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.’
- She created a ‘cottage-home, plain and unpretending.’
- He was an uneducated man, a plain unpretending plodding man,’ a neighbor remembered; one who ‘attended to his work, peaceable - quiet and good natured.’
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