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Recent Examples of unshowy
There’s also an unshowy pride in its subtly diverse, distinctly Canadian cast of characters.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Cronenberg captures the way such a gift might unwind a person in an effectively unshowy way.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
But the showy structure overwhelms the unshowy story.
—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
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Cronenberg captures the way such a gift might unwind a person in an effectively unshowy way.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
But the showy structure overwhelms the unshowy story.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshowy
Adjective
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Quiet, Controlled, and Built for Long-Term Use The motor operates at only 60 dB, quieter than a typical washing machine, making early-morning or late-night sessions unobtrusive.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Nov. 2025
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The film’s most powerful scene arrives when Turdugul’s grandmother refuses to sell her property to routine opportunists and laments about a vanishing village that has been slipping through her fingers — an occasion Akynbekov and Kubat approach with an unobtrusive, documentarian aesthetic.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
23 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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While a character named Tuberculosis Karen seems like a surefire success, this season, which was split into two stories — one about the mysterious off-season residents of Provincetown and the other about an alien conspiracy in the 1950s — proved unremarkable.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2025
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When the Chinese cargo ship Istanbul Bridge docked at the British port of Felixstowe on October 13, 2025, the arrival might have appeared unremarkable.—
ELIZABETH ECONOMY,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Stern’s design, woven through and behind the original 1908 building and the 1939 addition that gave the museum its full-block width, is transformative yet inconspicuous, embodying his values of understated patriotism, historical preservation, tastefulness, and memory.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
3 Dec. 2025
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The actors hidden among the audience and posing as fellow audience members were mostly inconspicuous, and the atmosphere was lively and fun.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Both white beans and chickpeas have neutral flavors that meld well with oats, and mashing them up beforehand will make their texture almost unnoticeable.—
Audrey Bruno,
SELF,
25 Sep. 2025
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For the most part, Toronto’s tweaks are unnoticeable.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The perpetual buzz of mining bees mingled with the shuffle of rabbits through the bushes, woodpeckers’ rapid-fire drilling, and the hard-staccato tchack, tchack, tchack of ravenlike birds known as jackdaws, creating a subtle symphony.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Look for alcohol-free, subtle formulas the goal is a whisper of fragrance, not a perfume cloud that announces itself from across the room.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
10 June 2026
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“Unshowy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshowy. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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