Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being unobtrusive.
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- noun The state of being
unobtrusive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way
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Examples
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No tablet can compete with the mobility of a smartphone, its ease of fitting into your pocket or purse, its unobtrusiveness when used in a crowd.
Steve Jobs: why Android isn't open, and we won't build a 7" iPad Charles Arthur 2010
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Blogs are such great ways of exploring a voice and seeing what you can do with it, and generally I love their unobtrusiveness.
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Joan cherishes quiet, order, reliability, predictability, and unobtrusiveness in her own life and expects these qualities in dogs, so she was completely unprepared for a terrier like Flint who barks at any change in his environment or at anything that has raised his excitement level.
Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010
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Neither company is Google, with their so-far magical combination of Web-surfer respectfulness, ad unobtrusiveness and good press coverage.
Microsoft: Machiavellian or Muddled? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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There was a subtlety in the predators that defied description and eluded cameras, a capacity to move without exciting attention, a wraithlike quality of unobtrusiveness.
Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010
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What I love most about stonechats, which are almost invariably in pairs, is their unobtrusiveness.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010
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There was a subtlety in the predators that defied description and eluded cameras, a capacity to move without exciting attention, a wraithlike quality of unobtrusiveness.
Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010
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She concluded the heartfelt letter by saying that these men had served the president as well as anyone in his government, and that protecting his wife and children with such tact, devotion, and unobtrusiveness . . . made our White House years the happy ones they were.
The Kennedy Detail Gerald Blaine 2010
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There was a subtlety in the predators that defied description and eluded cameras, a capacity to move without exciting attention, a wraithlike quality of unobtrusiveness.
Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010
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The world-building is all the more effective for its unobtrusiveness: we never have the sense that the relentless pace of the story is on hold while Bester fills us in on the background.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009
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