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inobtrusive

[in-uhb-troo-siv] / ˌɪn əbˈtru sɪv /


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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

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 Eliot, George

He is the oldest frequenter of the place, the latest sitter-up, well-informed, inobtrusive, and that sturdy old English character, a lover of truth and justice.

From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor




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