unapparent

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After viewing the video, Beck concluded the officer’s actions were not reasonable “given Alford’s limited and unapparent resistance,” his report said. The chief and the civilian Police Commission determined Garcia violated department rules during the arrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2016

For some unapparent reason Mrs. Wentworth's spirits rose, but she assumed an air of severity.

From The Tangled Threads by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

Her unapparent features make me feel How others must feel my face....

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon

Now, for the first time, he was conscious that a woman is never wholly silent—that a whisper of lace or a lisp of silk speaks the movement that is unapparent to the eye.

From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore

Strickland was used to stormy youth, to its passional moments, sudden glows, burnings, sympathies, defiances, lurid shows of effects with the causes largely unapparent.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary