Definitions
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- adjective rare Inconspicuous.
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- adjective obsolete Not
conspicuous ;inconspicuous
Etymologies
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Examples
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I must say that ‘inartful’ falls on my ear with a better cadence that ‘unartful’ which sounds clunky to me; consider ‘unconspicuous’ v. ‘inconspicuous’.
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These should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and unconspicuous to State Commissioners.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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With such counsels, glowing with a father's love and enforced by the constant example of a father's life, it is no wonder that the son grew into the manliness, the gentleness and modesty, the charitableness of judgment, the unconspicuous and patient devotion to duty, and the personal lovableness of Gen. LEE.
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The figure was extraordinary not for dress -- the dress was plain and unconspicuous -- but for that expression of the free and the untamed, the lack of self-consciousness so rarely seen except in children and animals.
The Conflict 1911
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Disguised as unconspicuous and harmless persons, they would meet in many quiet haunts whose unsuspected excellences they could guarantee from their old experience, and there mature their philanthropic plan.
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Disguised as unconspicuous and harmless persons, they would meet in many quiet haunts whose unsuspected excellences they could guarantee from their old experience, and there mature their philanthropic plan.
Count Bunker 1905
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With such counsels, glowing with a father's love and enforced by the constant example of a father's life, it is no wonder that the son grew into the manliness, the gentleness and modesty, the charitableness of judgment, the unconspicuous and patient devotion to duty, and the personal lovableness of Gen. LEE.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H F Lee Various 1892
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The figure was extraordinary not for dress -- the dress was plain and unconspicuous -- but for that expression of the free and the untamed, the lack of self-consciousness so rarely seen except in children and animals.
The Conflict David Graham Phillips 1889
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I sprang up on the companion slide to see whether the turtle was still visible, and was rejoiced to find that he _was_, -- floating, an unconspicuous and unrecognisable object by this time, -- nearly half a mile away, apparently quite undisturbed by the rustling sounds of the canvas.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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Page 192 outside of the door commanded a view of the party within: in the midst of these Willy of the Flats was by no means an unconspicuous personage.
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