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What (who) is unpretending - definition
unpretending
¦ adjective archaic not pretentious or false.
unpretending
a.
Modest, unassuming, retiring, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretentious.
Pretendence
·noun The act of pretending; pretense.
Examples of use of unpretending
1. Reith wrote of ‘the amenities of town being carried to the country, the myriad voices of nature borne to the city street … the voice of leaders of thought and action coming to the fireside; the news of the world at the ear of the rustic ... the Prime Minister speaking direct to the nation from his room in Downing Street; the King heard by his farthest and most solitary subject; the facts of great issues, hitherto distorted by partisan interpretation, now put directly and clearly before them‘. Obviously much of that now applies also to the best of TV, but radio still holds a special place because its unpretending simplicity gives it the ability to take risks.