What is "unpretentious"

Usage examples of "unpretentious".

Ned kept watch on the parking lot of the small business park where the accounting company had its unpretentious, storefront-like offices.

Stadt-theater, is going to stage an unpretentious but distinguished ballet program.

On every side are seen venerable trees overtowering its not unpretentious steeple.

The office that Cullen had reserved for himself was unpretentious, and just at the moment, half of it was taken up with undivulged items from Earth that had arrived on the Vishnu, and which he had not yet gotten around to unpacking.

George: I thought you two would still be aestivating at a more popular location, letting your minds vegetate while our charmingly unpretentious hosts waited on your every biological need.

Closed, it was a striking but simple, unpretentious piece with a flat, unembellished facade crafted from the honeytoned woods favored by Biedermeier artisans.

For always, after that simple marriage ceremony in Panama City when he and Gemma stood before the municipal juez in his cotton guayabera and took their unpretentious vows, Partridge nursed a conviction that simple ceremonies produced the better marriages andflamboyant, ritzier circuses were more likely to be followed by divorce.

He likes being there to come to, and likes delivering little unpretentious minilectures on tennis theory and E.

Lieutenance fortress built and rebuilt over the centuries, to come to rest in the Gars Normand, a small, unpretentious and spectacularly good restaurant overlooking the quayside.

When he found himself contemplating how much moisture the unpretentious little grotesqueries might contain, he turned away in disgust.

Poor sad Haleem Khan himself was gone too, the ever-weary little brown-skinned man who in ten years had somehow saved five thousand pounds from his salary as a dishwasher at the Lion and Unicorn Hotel and had used that, back when England had a queen and Elizabeth was her name, as the seed money for the unpretentious little restaurant that was going to rescue him and his family from utter hopeless poverty.

Sutton was likewise present, but quiet and unpretentious, and I thought there was a false, affected note in the hilarity of the ringsters, and for effect.

It was surprising to find in the desolate wilds of our country a man so thoroughly acquainted with everything useful to know in his line of life, and yet of such inferior rank and unpretentious bearing.

It was an unpretentious, intimate place with great authentic food, live music and the cheesiest decorations you can imagine.

The Cobles were his kind of people--superrich but marvelously unpretentious.