unflashy

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1. Not flashy.

   He was quiet, unassuming, decidedly unflashy, nearly clergylike: the antithesis of the popular image of an agent.

   2000, Daniel Okrent, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game

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   She was nothing like the wild supermodels and party girls he had been dating. Ms. Hamm has unflashy clothes, jewelry and ways and is the opposite of high-maintenance.

   2007 January 28, Lois Smith Brady, “Shannon Hamm and John Warner IV”, in New York Times

   Sunak has been keen to assemble a cabinet largely in his own image - straightforward, unflashy and low-profile - and is likely to prioritise others who fit this mould.

   2023 July 15, Aubrey Allegretti, “Sunak eyes reshuffle: Ministers prepare for post-political careers”, in The Guardian, page 23