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Definition of "unassertive" [unassertive]

  • Not assertive; reserved. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unassertive" in a sentence
  • "They're characterized as unassertive, over-patient, avoiding conflict."
  • "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"
  • "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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