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

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

In Somehow Good the ugliest tragedy takes its place in the unapparent order of life.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

Suspense in Heaven, Held by thy voice, thy potent voice he hears, And longer will delay, to hear thee tell His generation, and the rising birth Of Nature from the unapparent deep.—vii. 98-103.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel

The ensuing evening was, to Christina, uncanny in its unapparent strangeness.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas