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UNOBTRUSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unobtrusively mean? 

UNOBTRUSIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb UNOBTRUSIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in an unobtrusive mannerplay

  Familiarity information: UNOBTRUSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNOBTRUSIVELY (adverb)


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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