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- adjective Not
flamboyant .
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Examples
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By making it longer, its overseers have wound up favoring shorter, unflamboyant hitters.
At the PGA: Who Are These Guys? John Paul Newport 2011
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Quietly spoken, neatly suited, unflamboyant in manner but a stickler for detail, he would be every chief executive's choice of a second in command.
John Cridland of the CBI: 'There is a sense of urgency about making Plan A work' 2011
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The legislation's author, Carlos Apolinario, was mum on what sort of festivities the day will involve, but I imagine we can expect there to be a parade of straight people dressed in gender-appropriate, unflamboyant costumes.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: Pride (In the Name of Heterosexual Love) Todd Hartley 2011
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This really did feel like a defining moment of ascension for a team built around two of the most quietly acquisitive, notably unflamboyant of modern batsmen.
England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards 2011
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And while Mao tended to revel in titles, the unflamboyant Deng did not, refusing to become chairman of the Party, prime minister of the State Council or president.
Deng's Revolution 2008
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A flamboyant name for a rather unflamboyant individual.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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A flamboyant name for a rather unflamboyant individual.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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A flamboyant name for a rather unflamboyant individual.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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But Lang Lang certainly acknowledges there is such a thing as serious and unflamboyant music, which has special values and presents its own challenges.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The pianist Radu Lupu appears to have cultivated an unflamboyant, even deliberately unglamorous approach to performing.
WN.com - Articles related to Turmoil Reported in N. Korea After Currency Changes 2010
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