(adv.) In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.
(adv.) Nicely; delicately.
(adv.) Deceitfully; delusively.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is socially very divisive, it is stigmatising, it is subtly slanderous and it is immoral.
(2) The other one shows typical characteristics of PKC which responds to Ca2+, phosphatidylserine and diacylglycerol, but shows kinetic properties subtly different from the previously known PKC subspecies.
(3) Major intra-abdominal arteriovenous fistulas usually present with a machinery bruit over a pulsatile mass, but may present more subtly with pain and otherwise unexplained hematuria.
(4) There was a tendency for the isoechoic cancers and those with subtly hyperechoic areas to more often have poor cellular differentiation and a greater degree of stromal fibrosis, but considerable overlap among histologic types was seen.
(5) Half a dozen times now they have produced elaborate redesigns of the old, discredited Press Complaints Commission , each subtly different but none delivering the simple, effective, independent redress that Leveson said was necessary.
(6) Owing to its confusional characteristics, envy is always subtly disguised and hardly ever appears in a straightforward manner.
(7) Clinton’s involvement in the Iran debate subtly positions the Democratic frontrunner as an Iran hawk who is less hopeful of the diplomatic bargain ending US grievances with Tehran than she is cautious about Washington fracturing a diplomatic coalition needed to enforce punitive measures on Iran.
(8) The results indicate that one group of surgeons (34% of those responding) believes each type of surgery has equal survival rates but unknowingly influences the patient to choose modified radical mastectomy, with a subtly biased presentation.
(9) But several street signs will have been subtly altered, roads will have slogans painted across them and a prominent wall will bear in large letters the words – "Why are we here?"
(10) They discriminated between grossly different figures placed as far out as 30 degrees toward the periphery, and they discriminated between more subtly different figures, which differed only in the shape of their internal elements, out to 10 degrees.
(11) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
(12) Since the day of the shooting, I have been told the story several dozen times, and it seems that with each retelling the details are subtly different: they grow a little more dramatic perhaps, or a touch more tragic.
(13) Moreover, it becomes possible to regulate the therapy more subtly with the help of self-adapting programs and in its consequence to render it more effective than the own management of therapy is able to do it.
(14) Cardiovascular problems tend to present subtly years later, when the patient may not recall the prior radiation or may not deem it significant.
(15) And beneath the story on the surface there is always another, told more subtly, about the compulsions, desires and anxieties that animate the first.
(16) The usually indistinctive and unspecified liquor syndrome requires a subtly differentiated diagnostic distinguishing between vascular brain stem syndromes and brain stem gliomas.
(17) What we are seeing is simply a new tier of subtly differentiated schools being grafted on to the existing hierarchy, at the bottom of which Lilian Baylis found itself in 2003.
(18) The stories range from the subtly sinister to the outrageously gothic.
(19) If Mendelsohn is playing Tarkin, his Imperial-rank insignia and uniform are both subtly different to those sported by Cushing, though it’s possible the character simply picked up a promotion or two somewhere along the way.
(20) His army, which tried, subtly and not so subtly, to squeeze the opposition has been found out.
Unobtrusively
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He recommends not a bland and stimulus-free environment, but one whose elements are unobtrusive and unambiguous.
(2) Key to her survival has been her ability to stay calm and project an air of unobtrusive competence.
(3) Given that in rural Haiti, as in much of the less developed world, few women deliver in clinic or hospital where such data could be systematically obtained, exploitation of the preceding birth method would require identification of a convenient and unobtrusive point of contact between questioner and mothers who have recently delivered.
(4) On the positive side, patients expressed satisfaction with the efficacy, rapid recovery and small unobtrusive scars produced by the procedure.
(5) Occasionally it has been unobtrusive – such as Nationwide's sponsorship of the cash machine in Dev's corner shop in Coronation Street – but elsewhere it's been jarring – such as ITV's deal with Samsung for The X-Factor , which led to scenes of contestants squealing with delight to receive goody bags of Samsung gadgets, and turned every phone call and video diary entry into a mini-plug for the brand.
(6) Its "promoted tweet" service, for example, didn't launch until 2010 (four years after the company's foundation), and the frequency of promoted tweets – and of other new services such as "promoted trends" – has been fairly unobtrusive up to now.
(7) A label for this heart rate either was or was not provided, and subjects' eating behavior was measured unobtrusively.
(8) However, no controlled study has previously been conducted to obtain systematic but unobtrusive data on the actual influences of alcohol upon real-world driving behavior in its natural environment.
(9) When I walk in, he is standing in the queue, on his own, casually dressed, looking as ordinary and unobtrusive as he can.
(10) Obtrusive and unobtrusive observations revealed the cough rate higher when the patient was aware of being observed than when he was unaware of being observed.
(11) Custom-made to blend in with the Victorian wooden benches, it looks like a tea-trolley and is almost as unobtrusive as the small grey cameras perched on the bookshelves.
(12) When one makes practical application of the unobtrusive approach, the most difficult problem is defining which interdisciplinary topics are currently being taught.
(13) The current study used an unobtrusive methodology to describe the social image associated with smokeless tobacco use and with cigarette smoking in three "types" of teenage models--an athlete, a cowboy, and an average teenager.
(14) This study reports on an unobtrusive study of changes in physician referral behavior after a need-oriented continuing medical education program.
(15) Using an unobtrusive eyedrop medication monitor, we measured compliance with topical pilocarpine treatment in a sample of 184 patients.
(16) Bragg, admittedly, was a particularly unobtrusive figure – his silence emanating from a emotionless Blackberry, as the singer songwriter is on tour in Scotland.
(17) Unobtrusive observations of smoking behavior at four hospital areas designated as no-smoking and two designated as smoking revealed almost total compliance to a revised and stringent smoking control policy.
(18) It is reliable and unobtrusive and is particularly resistant to occlusion of the sampling line by secrections.
(19) Therefore it is only reasonably good taste to be as unobtrusive as possible.
(20) To investigate this finding, a survey of reference activity was conducted using measurement techniques unobtrusive to the user.