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unsubtle

US // (ʌnˈsʌtəl) //

含蓄的,不含糊,含蓄,不含糊的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not subtle; obvious or blatant

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Examples

  • That word “denialism” is particularly profane, with its unsubtle invocation of the Holocaust.

  • Allie calls it “Fat Boy,” an unsubtle portmanteau of the nicknames—“Fat Man” and “Little Boy”—given the bombs dropped over Japan.

  • Most likely this is an unsubtle nod to critics that Bush knew Cheney might have been a problem.

  • Mrs. Ginsburg rocked and fanned rhythmically; her unsubtle lips curled upward with the subtle smile of a zingaro.

  • A pantomime book is on the whole rather a mournfully unsubtle document.

  • In his unsubtle makeup the measure of his devotion was as great as the measure of his unspoiled manhood.

  • The others read, talked, smoked, bandied over my head some unsubtle chaff.

  • She knew him to be too simple, too unsubtle, to detect the art which lent power and pathos to her words.