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unobtrusively

[uhn-uhb-troo-siv]

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adjective

not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.

Origin:
1735–45; un-¹ + obtrusive

Related forms

un·ob·tru·sive·ly, adverb

un·ob·tru·sive·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

Most athletes prefer to spend their off seasons unobtrusively.

The idea is that chic household items present information unobtrusively and in ways that can be taken in at a glance.

In more benign conditions, the goggles hang unobtrusively around your neck.

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Most athletes prefer to spend their off seasons unobtrusively.

The idea is that chic household items present information unobtrusively and in ways that can be taken in at a glance.

In more benign conditions, the goggles hang unobtrusively around your neck.

More of a challenge is unobtrusively connecting the speakers along the room's sides.

Caterers dressed in white stand unobtrusively to the sides.

IT is rarely one finds a first novel so unobtrusively expert as this one, or so fresh and distinguished in style.

Both rooms are staffed by unobtrusively professional, capable waiters.

Soft taped jazz throughout dinner supplied congenial background music unobtrusively.

Each beach also has toilet facilities and showers, set back unobtrusively in the forest.

Their only script was commercials, which they themselves styled, and they delivered them unobtrusively and at random.

And text, narration and images can be conveyed unobtrusively to those who want it.

Lowry signals, unobtrusively but clearly, when she is gliding into the imagined phases of her narrative.

The isolators are only about four inches tall and rest unobtrusively between the object's pedestal or case and the floor.

Must address the social issue of our high density society expecting us all to be unobtrusively bathed, coiffed and outfitted.

Keeping himself abreast of police maneuvers by listening to car radios and unobtrusively hanging around.

O'Brien's direction keeps the confined action flowing unobtrusively and always toward the cogent point.

They can scan the résumés unobtrusively and get in touch with the applicants.

It is a different and unobtrusively effective commentary on opera updates.

Within minutes he has unobtrusively replaced his support.

These officials have by and large decided to cut costs as unobtrusively as possible.

Sensitive lighting and curly koa wall panels accent an unobtrusively pleasing environment.

And text, narration and images can be conveyed unobtrusively to those who want.

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World English Dictionary

unobtrusive (ˌʌnəbˈtruːsɪv)

—*adj*
	not noticeable or conspicuous

unob'trusively

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

unobtrusive

from un- (1) + obtrusive (see obtrude). Related: Unobtrusively.

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