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UNOBTRUSIVELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unobtrusively mean?
• UNOBTRUSIVELY (adverb)
The adverb UNOBTRUSIVELY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNOBTRUSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an unobtrusive manner
Context example:
messengers were moving unobtrusively over the jet-black mountain ranges, bearing confidential tidings from sheikhdom to sheikhdom
Antonym:
obtrusively (in an obtrusive manner)
Pertainym:
unobtrusive (not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable)
Context examples
Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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