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• a  not ostentatious
  his unostentatious office
  unostentatious elegance
• s  exhibiting restrained good taste

• For all its wealth, however, the clan was known for an unostentatious reserve, and throughout her childhood, as ever after, Cory preferred to be overlooked.
• Vanderbilt donations to public institutions have been frequent, moderate, unostentatious through the generations, in regard to some organizations practically a tradition.
• One of the authentic heroes of the Castro rebellion was a beardless, unostentatious young flyer named Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz.

• unpretentious
• unpretending
• understated

• ostentatious

Quotes

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• Giuseppe Pisanu in BBC News
  The Islamic headscarf - worn in a dignified, unostentatious way - is an innocuous symbol of a cultural and religious identity which deserves all our respect,Mr Pisanu said.