Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inconspicuous manner.
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- adverb In an
inconspicuous manner; so as not to attractattention or appearunusual or out of the ordinary.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention
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Examples
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What could I carry "inconspicuously" on my bike???
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The Fall is the creation of frontman, lyricist, and professional-interview-drunk (I'm assuming he's a professional, as he always looks drunk in interviews and is usually rather "inconspicuously" drinking a beer)
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Mint marks are made as inconspicuously as possible without losing there main function.
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Streaming tears inconspicuously cloaked by a veil.
Michael W. Waters: She Loves Me (Yulise In E Flat) Michael W. Waters 2011
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Simply hit F8 inconspicuously and let them do what they want to do.
Four Experimental Firefox Extensions Worth An Extra Click | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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She hung about in and near the Plaza de Arms, General Muñiz Paola one day asked where Victoria was, and she was told  “She died …, ” thus, as she had lived, inconspicuously.
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Streaming tears inconspicuously cloaked by a veil.
Michael W. Waters: She Loves Me (Yulise In E Flat) Michael W. Waters 2011
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Our heroes very inconspicuously left the pirate bar and followed the lady to a rather rich-looking house with some strange-looking lumps in the front yard.
D&D nathreee 2010
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The device conceals an entire bottle of wine, which the wearer can sip inconspicuously through a tube.
Wine: Drunken steak and other abuses from 2010 Dave McIntyre 2011
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Our heroes very inconspicuously left the pirate bar and followed the lady to a rather rich-looking house with some strange-looking lumps in the front yard.
D&D nathreee 2010
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