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• s  not pompous

• After all, Charles did marry a commoner: a vivacious, strong-willed young woman, who is unpompous and unintimidated.
• His counsel is sane, sensible and unpompous.
• An unpompous, handsome, likable Scot, Fraser seemed to have everything going for him a decade ago.

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• Margaret Drabble in guardian.co.uk
  The novelist Margaret Drabble said: "His record in defending literature and attacking censorship was brilliant. And he did it with such good humour - it was very hard to get cross with John. He was so unpompous about his defence of literature."
• Rowan Williams in BBC News
  Dr Williams said: "In every post he has filled he has brought to bear a deep common sense, a complete unpompous attitude, a ready sympathy for all and an irrepressible dead-pan humour. I shall miss him more than I can easily say, as a colleague...