unflashy

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ flashy.

Adjective

unflashy (comparative more unflashy, superlative most unflashy)

1. Not flashy.
   • 2000, Daniel Okrent, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game:

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

   • 2007 January 28, Lois Smith Brady, “Shannon Hamm and John Warner IV”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

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

     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.