UNPRETENTIOUSLY Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

unpretentiously

adverb

Definition of unpretentiously

as in sincerely

without any attempt to impress by deception or exaggeration that rare restaurant reviewer who writes engagingly but unpretentiously about food

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Clint and his management team sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this cancellation may cause.

— Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
Here was a government that had explicitly borrowed from Beijing’s developmental playbook and sincerely attempted to imitate it, but failed.

— Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of sincerely

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So, while certain claims about the recent test appear to be hyperbolic, this is genuinely an impressive technical achievement for the team behind it.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
Spontaneous travel or conversation with someone from a different background could be genuinely enlightening.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026

Definition of genuinely

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However, the creator is fielding queries openly and the project has already surpassed it funding goal.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 July 2026
Huffman, who represents a sprawling slice of Northern California, reaching from the Bay Area to the Oregon border, is one of just four members (out of more than 500) who are openly agnostic or religiously unaffiliated.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

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