What's the difference between deferential and unassuming?

Deferential


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
  • (2) The testis is packed in ice-cold saline throughout the ischemic interval, and the deferential artery and vein are ligated.
  • (3) Failures to fertilise after epiddidymo-deferential anastomoses therefore do not seem to be due to these two factors.
  • (4) Justice Malala , a political commentator, said: "Culturally, black South Africans are very deferential on the subject of death.
  • (5) Our data indicate that the most common etiology of recurrent varicocele in children seems to be residual proximal (central) collateral veins, pelvic collateral veins (that is cremasteric, deferential and crossover veins) rarely seem to contribute to varicocelectomy failure and there is an inherent but low risk of varicocelectomy failure despite radiological evidence of complete internal spermatic vein interruption.
  • (6) The government claims it has a court warrant under Fisa – but that unconstitutionally sweeping warrant is from a secret court, shielded from effective oversight, almost totally deferential to executive requests.
  • (7) A distinct activity of N-Acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase and beta-galactosidase was observed in the seminal vesicle, the ampulla ductus deferentis and in the prostatic gland.
  • (8) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
  • (9) In some senses Boyle's exuberant vision appeared to have been conceived not only in response to the regimented order of Beijing, but also to the joyous but deferential spirit of the recent jubilee.
  • (10) "It will make people a lot less trusting or deferential, perhaps more cynical, but politicians have got to win back people's trust," he said.
  • (11) That is why, among other reasons, it is regrettable that the British approach to China under the coalition has come to have about it something mendicant, cap in hand, and unduly deferential.
  • (12) The foreign secretary rejected suggestions that Britain was being overly deferential to Beijing.
  • (13) On venography, the stop-type varicoceles showed only retrograde blood flow (reflux) in the testicular (internal spermatic) vein, whereas each shunt-type varicocele showed both retrograde and orthograde (i.e., physiologic) venous blood flow: First, reflux appeared in the testicular vein, then orthograde flow occurred in the deferential vein, cremasteric vein, or both.
  • (14) Watch it here: ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.59pm GMT Dianne Feinstein has not garnered much praise in the last year from civil liberties and privacy advocates, many of whom see her as having been too deferential to the intelligence community – of allowing testimony to go unchallenged, of making overblown claims for the efficacy of surveillance programs, of siding with the intelligence chiefs over the public.
  • (15) The Receptaculum ductus deferentis, the Corpus vasculare paracloacalis and the Phallus nonprotrudens in the Cloaca were supplied from the thick Ramus cloacalis of the A. pudenda.
  • (16) It might seem hard to imagine someone who’s usually more deferential to the intelligence community than Sen. Feinstein (other than on this one issue) but the next head of the intelligence committee – which again, is supposed to question the agency – is North Carolina Republican Richard Burr.
  • (17) In those more deferential times, John Junor, the editor of the Sunday Express, was ordered to come to the bar to apologise for claiming that MPs were evading petrol rations.
  • (18) In that more deferential era, Boothby bluffed his way out of it, furiously denied the allegations, and successfully sued the Sunday Mirror for £40,000.
  • (19) In person, the 36-year-old Ayoade is known for being deferential and self-deprecating.
  • (20) Yet it had no influence: over the following 46 years, the divide has grown almost totally obscure, the average pop star growing older, grander and more statesmanlike, the average politician younger, more awestruck and deferential.

Unassuming


Definition:

  • (a.) Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming manners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once he gets that power, he starts relishing that side of his personality.” Claflin is an earthy, unassuming sort; even acting hasn’t given him airs and graces.
  • (2) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
  • (3) But on Wednesday morning the eyes of the Russian elite – from ministers to Kremlin critics – will be on an unassuming courthouse in the centre of this city, where Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's loudest foe, will go on trial charged with embezzlement.
  • (4) Stuart, our guide from Wilderness Scotland, is easy-going and unassuming, and also a font of knowledge and a meticulous safety checker.
  • (5) Deahl described the woman as “quiet, unassuming, terribly committed to what she was doing”.
  • (6) I still am.” For many Republican primary voters, the question is whether the unassuming if somewhat gruff Paul – who insisted on no mayo in the ham and cheese sandwich he ordered for lunch – ever was particularly interesting, or if voters were only attracted to the idiosyncratic, 21st-century libertarianism he expounds.
  • (7) 'I am convinced that the only thing that saved those 1,268 people in my hotel was words,' recalls the unassuming man justifiably compared with Oskar Schindler.
  • (8) It’s a small, unassuming restaurant where even the queue to get in is exciting – order a cold beer and watch one of the owners grill fresh sardines and red mullet by the door as you wait.
  • (9) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
  • (10) You would hardly recognise him against the grey walls and wood veneer, the unassuming George Costanza lookalike of the Canberra policy world.
  • (11) Calm, unassuming, with salt-and-pepper hair and thoughtful blue eyes, Jane is at the heart of the Milligan clan (there are three other official siblings, plus two slightly unexpected ones) and tries to keep communications between them open.
  • (12) Coates can pass unrecognised through the streets of Stoke-on-Trent, where Bet365's success has made it the city's largest private sector employer, its unassuming offices a hi-tech hive of activity on the margins of an industrial landscape dominated by derelict pottery factories.
  • (13) Her front room-turned-store, where she sells soft drinks and the clove kretek cigarettes beloved of locals, looks unassuming, but is at ground zero for the city’s battle for survival.
  • (14) At last month's Guardian Edinburgh TV festival, a "masterclass" with unassuming, downhome Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan was the biggest draw.
  • (15) From there, an even worse road led me to the unassuming village where the current Ebola epidemic is thought to have started.
  • (16) Heslov directed and produced the film version of Jon Ronson's book, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Ronson testifies to his and Clooney's unusual generosity: "During the release of the film, [Clooney and Heslov] were very welcoming and unassuming and inclusive."
  • (17) Little stands out about the end-of-terrace house that sits on a busy but unassuming road in west London , other than the North Korean flag that flies outside it.
  • (18) Skip Lievsay, an unassuming-looking guy in his mid-60s with highly trained ears, stood before the stacks of speakers and giant movie screen in his office, fussing quietly.
  • (19) One asked me, ‘[Is this] Malaysia ?’ Then he pointed in the other direction, said ‘Thailand’ and shook his head to signal that he was not wanted there.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Malaysian police exhume remains from suspected migrant grave – video Wang Kelian is an unassuming settlement but it has been thrust into the global spotlight this week after the discovery in nearby jungle of dozens of secret camps used by people smugglers and nearly 140 grave sites .
  • (20) Echography must be unassuming in the diagnosis of extra-uterine pregnancy.