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Unassertive

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



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"Unassertive" Quotes from Famous Books



... plunged into thickening jungle, growing even more dense than that of Tehuantepec, with trees, plants, and all the stationary forms of nature struggling like an immense multitude fighting for life, the smaller and more agile climbing the sturdier, the weak and unassertive trampled to death underfoot on the dank, sunless ground. We crossed the now considerable river by a three-span bridge, and entered the banana country. English-speaking Negroes became numerous, and when we pulled ...
— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck
... his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald


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


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