inobtrusive
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More often, though, the camera’s positioning, movement and focus are inobtrusive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Paar kept saying: "I don't know what to do," and Rooney claimed: "I'm not trying to be inobtrusive."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then Grandcourt's behavior as a lover had hardly at all passed the limit of an amorous homage which was inobtrusive as a wafted odor of roses, and spent all its effects in a gratified vanity.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
It enabled him to detect accessible moments, do inobtrusive friendly services, and above all amuse his quarry.
From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Note the inobtrusive and yet fully adequate mode of introducing the main character, 'young Hamlet,' upon whom is transferred all the interest excited for the acts and concerns of the king his father.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge