unintimidating love

Definitions

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  • adjective Not intimidating; not making one fearful.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ intimidating

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Examples

  • French native David Malbequi, formerly of the BLT Market, has devised a seasonal menu that is, like its space, elegant yet unintimidating.

    French Accents Monica Williams 2011

  • "We work on unintimidating foods that mothers and dads can put together pretty easily," she says.

    Celebrity chefs lead the charge for healthier food 2010

  • All the nicknames are irrelevant in every way that doesn't matter and not in the one way that does matter: they sound unintimidating when normal people hear them on the news.

    Mars Rover Curiosity Name Doesn't Inpsire Our Readers - NASA Watch 2009

  • French native David Malbequi, formerly of the BLT Market, has devised a seasonal menu that is, like its space, elegant yet unintimidating.

    French Accents Monica Williams 2011

  • These seats of power were in fact inspired by houses (fazendas, those colonial Brazilian, low-slung plantation houses with their colonnaded verandas), which helps account for their unintimidating grandeur.

    A Vision in Concrete 2008

  • These seats of power were in fact inspired by houses (fazendas, those colonial Brazilian, low-slung plantation houses with their colonnaded verandas), which helps account for their unintimidating grandeur.

    A Vision in Concrete 2008

  • Unsurprisingly, it's a pretty bog-standard painting and drawing package, with a bright, cartoonish interface, designed to be thoroughly unintimidating, especially for kids, uDraw's target audience.

    THQ uDraw hands-on demonstration 2010

  • It's taken me a long time to realise how much I love short novels — those unintimidating, pencil-thick volumes which say: Pick me up.

    A Word On Short Novels 2010

  • Manford – whose standup experience or inclinations perhaps equip him better for off-piste work – fared better, but together they are as warm, unintimidating and friendly as the programme requires.

    The One Show: New dressing, same tasty morsels 2010

  • It made the encounter with DeLillo, a giant of the contemporary American literary landscape, seem almost normal, intriguing and unintimidating.

    Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear' 2010

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