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subtext

noun as in implicit meaning

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If you saw them, you may have missed the antimaterialist subtext, or the sweet, thoughtful person inside the performer.

The spirit is faithful; the subtext is fresh.

There’s a satirical subtext here that wasn’t present in her earlier earnest fantasies.

The subtext being, 'go ask somebody who can answer it'.

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The racist subtext is never hard to spot.

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