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unpretentiously

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un·pre·ten·tious  (npr-tnshs)
adj.
Lacking pretension or affectation; modest. See Synonyms at plain.
unpre·tentious·ly adv.
unpre·tentious·ness n.
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Adv.1.unpretentiouslyunpretentiously - in an unpretentious manner; "she was unpretentiously dressed even though she was the guest of honor"
pretentiously - in a pretentious manner; "this author writes pretentiously"
Translations
unpretentiously
adv → schlicht, bescheiden, einfach; speak → natürlich; write → in einfachen Worten


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Cadwallader said that Brooke was beginning to treat the Middlemarchers, and that she preferred the farmers at the tithe-dinner, who drank her health unpretentiously, and were not ashamed of their grandfathers' furniture.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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