unproud

comparative more unproud · superlative most unproud

1. Not proud.

   Listen, thou child I used to be! / Unproud I move, and yet unbowed, / Where thou wast fed with vanity, / Thy chiefest pride — thou wast not proud!

   1893, Edith Matilda Thomas, Fair Shadow Land, page 32

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   When he jeers at the British public who 'love me not,' it is with an air more jaunty than bitter, as of a. man not half-displeased to be above his audience, nor quite unproud of that distinction—sentiments which no audience is likely to approve of.

   1879 July 28, Fraser's Magazine, volume 20, page 104

   Arthur would spot Dose coming a mile off on the street and pull his wallet out, stuff a five-spot into his palm for their handclasp when they collided, pity money Dose had become too unproud to refuse.

   2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, page 823