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Unassertive

adjective
1.
Inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence.



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"Unassertive" Quotes from Famous Books



... an' A'll bate you!" interposed Rory, turning to bay on the most salient of the three or four pleas which had power to rouse the Old Adam in his unassertive nature. ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... course. For Lilamani Sinclair, with her Eastern mother-genius, had forged between herself and her first-born a link woven of the tenderest, most subtle fibres of heart and spirit; a link so vital, yet so unassertive, that it bid fair to stand the strain of absence, the test of time. So close a link with any human heart, while it makes for beauty, makes also for pain and perplexity,—as Roy was just realising ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver


Words linked to "Unassertive" :   assertive, self-effacing, unaggressive, submissive, reticent, nonaggressive, timid, retiring, nonassertive


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