inobtrusive

Example Sentences

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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

Young, and artless, and innocent, meaning no harm, and thinking none; affectionate as a smiling infant—playful, yet inobtrusive, as a weaned lamb—everybody loved her.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

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