unassertive

IPA: ʌnʌsˈɝtɪv

adjective

  • Not assertive
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Examples of "unassertive" in Sentences

  • He was totally unassertive, always reluctant to put himself forward.
  • They're characterized as unassertive, over-patient, avoiding conflict.
  • With them, Gough receded into himself, and the result was unassertive indie-jangle in a Lightning Seeds vein.
  • A magistrate's impatience with an "unassertive" public prosecutor led to a successful review application and the setting aside of a 10-year sentence for rape in the Pietermaritzburg
  •           Sheila, who he remembered as dark, slender, plain and unassertive, now seemed fuller and prettier, or at least blonder with more prominent lips or lipstick he couldn't tell which.
  • Written and directed by Adam Rapp, starring Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrel, Ed Harris, and Amelia Warner, “Winter Passing” is a film whose unassertive, low key existence continually enthralls me.
  • Also, they were laughing and merry eyes, within them much of the naivete and wonder of the child; and yet, in an unassertive way, they contained much of calm self-reliance and strength of purpose founded upon self-experience and experience of the world.
  • Also, they were laughing and merry eyes, within them much of the naivete and wonder of the child; and yet, in an unassertive way. they contained much of calm self-reliance and strength of purpose founded upon self-experience and experience of the world.
  • In recording the mutation of the term "passive voice", I've been focusing on the way that the word passive has gradually lost its technical grammatical meaning, and taken on a sense crystallizing around notions of passive as "unassertive", "lacking in force",

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