non-ostentatious

Updated: August 20, 2026

But I fear we need in some practical and non-ostentatious way now and then to remind all these European folk that we get no particular encouragement by being unduly leaned on. It is, however, the weariest Christmas in all British annals, certainly since the Napoleonic wars.

Burton Jesse Hendrick - The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II