unpretentious

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1. unpretentious - Adjective

2. unpretentious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not ostentatious

lacking pretension or affectation

exhibiting restrained good taste

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I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))). J. D. Salinger

I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious. Cameron Diaz

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized." Lucy R. Lippard

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious. Georg Baselitz

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food. Jacques Pepin

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. Confucius

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