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Recent Examples of unshowy
But the showy structure overwhelms the unshowy story.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
The bartenders move with precision, hands trained, movements unshowy, each action deliberate.
—Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
With her short hair and unshowy clothing, Fan Chunli looks every bit the middle-aged woman from rural China.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
To be fair to les frères Dardennes, there is a reliable level of unshowy competence as well as an integrity to their insistence on embedding with unglamorous, recognizable people.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
The bartenders move with precision, hands trained, movements unshowy, each action deliberate.
—Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
With her short hair and unshowy clothing, Fan Chunli looks every bit the middle-aged woman from rural China.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
To be fair to les frères Dardennes, there is a reliable level of unshowy competence as well as an integrity to their insistence on embedding with unglamorous, recognizable people.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for unshowy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshowy
Adjective
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The service is currently funded by ads — some from pharmaceutical and medical device companies — on its app and website, though many of the clinicians interviewed for this article remarked that the ads were either unobtrusive or nonexistent.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
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Maitre d' Julia and her team are knowledgeable, friendly, and unobtrusive.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Both kinds of narrative succeed in showing us the everyday, unremarkable, and ordinary.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
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But the other patients look medically unremarkable, nothing about them suggesting that something in their internal signalling system is broken.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
Adjective
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Always test your cleaning method in an inconspicuous spot before getting started.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
22 May 2026
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At first, the object that surfaced was inconspicuous, packed in a wet clod of earth.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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Placing a small, unnoticeable camera can be tricky and, for some nests, requires a helicopter.—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
29 Apr. 2026
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The consequences of such an error, in the context of a computation where there is no cross-checking in place, can range from unnoticeable to catastrophic.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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She was left to ponder empty dresser drawers and piece together the subtle clues of their final days together.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2026
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The photo reveals subtle imperfections in the arc of the moon's crescent, created as sunlight fell on craters and broken terrain lining the shadowy divide separating night from day on the lunar surface.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
Adjective
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The former is quietly involving: unhurried, unemphatic, observant.—
Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Nov. 2021
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The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
6 July 2018
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“Unshowy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshowy. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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