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• a  lacking pretension or affectation
  an unpretentious country church
  her quiet unpretentious demeanor
• a  not ostentatious
• s  exhibiting restrained good taste

• Even more amazing than Clarkson's emergence as a credible pop singer is that her glitz-free approach--she favors hook-filled, unpretentious songs, like the addictive Since U Been .
• Sitting in his airy, wood-paneled office, surrounded by about a dozen neat stacks of paper representing works in progress, he's amiable, chatty and deeply unpretentious--he refers .
• Going My Way, an unpretentious story of two Catholic priests produced on a low budget and given relatively little publicity, is one of the greatest box-office smashes in a decade.

• unostentatious
• unpretending
• understated

• pretentious
• ostentatious

News & Articles

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• Gotye Gets Back to Basics, His Band Before 'Somebody' Blew Him Up
  Wally De Backer -- better known as Gotye -- isn’t your typical musician. He’s talented, restless, unpretentious and loyal. It’s rarer still for an...
  June 20, 2013 - Billboard
• Bruins' Chris Kelly louder than he lets on
  BOSTON - To talk to Chris Kelly, he comes across as a modest, soft-spoken, unpretentious kind of guy and#8212; much like the simple, honest hockey game he plays.
  June 19, 2013 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
• Big top, big appetites
  Amid the tents that have taken up residence near Camden’s waterfront, all in the name of Cirque du Soleil, is a small, unpretentious building that bears no sign.
  June 19, 2013 - Burlington County Times

Quotes

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• Tom Cruise in guardian.co.uk
  Throughout the years, unpretentious and never condescending, he shared with me what he loved about family, storytelling, food, flying and a great bottle of vino,Cruise said. "He was a Renaissance man and a great friend. I will miss him...
• Jack Steadman in Forbes
  Someone would come up to him and say, `You look just like Lamar Hunt.' They just couldn't believe he was in a concession line,longtime friend and business colleague Jack Steadman said. "He was totally unpretentious."
• Jennifer Aniston in Ok! Magazine
  Jennifer Aniston tells Access Hollywood's Billy Bush in an interview airing tonight: "We just had so much fun together you know. He's just fun. Gerry's the most unpretentious guy."