Definition of "unshowy" [unshowy]

• Not showy; plain or unassuming (adjective)

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• "it's a little too schematic for my taste - but it's a poetically serious application of different ingredients of African and African-American dance; its whole idiom has a kind of unshowy lyricism that opens a window of fresh air for Ailey."
• "I am struck by a sensation that the mourners are fundamentally alien to us, with their unshowy yet self-conscious markers of wealth: jewelry, heavy makeup, oversize $1,000 sunglasses."
• "Several West Side brokers said that on the affluent but studiously unshowy Upper West Side, Mr. Barnett overestimated the market potential for an apartment that measures 13,779 square feet, plus the terrace."