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veiled

[veyld]

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adjective

having a veil: a veiled hat.

covered or concealed by, or as if by, a veil: a veiled woman.

not openly or directly expressed; masked; disguised; hidden; obscure: a veiled threat.

lacking clarity or distinctness: veiled sounds; a veiled image.

Origin:
1585–95; veil + -ed³

Related forms

veil·ed·ly

[vey-lid-lee] , adverb

half-veiled, adjective

well-veiled, adjective

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He said the speech, written by the prime minister's office, was a thinly veiled attack on his party.

So already the reader is at several veiled removes even as the speaker intimates that she's on the cusp of making a revelation.

Opponents variously disparage this as meaningless fluff or a veiled way of cutting public services.

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He said the speech, written by the prime minister's office, was a thinly veiled attack on his party.

So already the reader is at several veiled removes even as the speaker intimates that she's on the cusp of making a revelation.

Opponents variously disparage this as meaningless fluff or a veiled way of cutting public services.

But any place you put your hand, there is life, veiled in the sand or hiding in plain sight.

In much of his graffiti they serve as thinly veiled stand-ins for humans.

The words he has written are a thinly veiled cry for help.

He declines to fax a copy, instead making veiled threats of legal action.

Comments will be not published if they are even deemed by the moderator as a veiled threat.

No one knew whether she had deliberately shielded her eyes from death or if the river current had simply veiled her face.

Though veiled by cloth, his nostrils fl ared sharply.

It is nothing more than veiled immigration lawyer bashing.

In moments of cataclysmic intensity these veiled forces rupture.

In the case of journal entries thinly veiled as critical essays, it is harder.

Moreover, not all veiled women are paragons of modesty:.

Snow took veiled aim today at the artificially weakened yen and yuan.

The relationship between the former collaborators has deteriorated into barely veiled animosity.

Italy made a barely veiled threat along these lines this week.

Scott captured the straggle of ponies veiled in the icy wilderness.

She said it also made her happy to see veiled women working.

China's claim is not particularly stronger than that of others-unless one counts blustering and veiled threats.

Still others say that she came here to deliver a veiled message.

Thinly veiled self righteousness is the same no matter what cultural terms you wrap it.

Most attempts to separate us from our money rely on an inspiration of fear, frequently veiled as a promise.

These or other weasel words and thinly veiled insults which this article is full of.

They have been much better at ill-considered insults and threats, veiled in poorly constructed metaphors.

Terror is the crudest tool in the mind of deception, and is usually veiled in threat.

There are veiled hints that he is using his role as chairman of the selection process in a way that is not wholly straightforward.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.

a piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress of a nun.

the life of a nun, especially a cloistered life.

something that covers, separates, screens, or conceals: a veil of smoke; the veil of death.

a mask, disguise, or pretense: to find fault under a veil of humor.

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Botany, Anatomy, Zoology. a velum.

Mycology. a membrane that covers the immature mushroom of many fungi and breaks apart as the mushroom expands, leaving distinctive remnants on the cap, stalk, or stalk base.

Scot. and North England. a caul.

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verb (used with object)

to cover or conceal with or as with a veil: She veiled her face in black. A heavy fog veiled the shoreline.

10.

to hide the real nature of; mask; disguise: to veil one's intentions.

verb (used without object)

11.

to don or wear a veil: In certain Islamic countries women must veil.

Idiom

12.

take the veil, to become a nun.

Origin:
1175–1225; (noun) Middle English veile < Anglo-French < Latin vēla, neuter plural (taken in VL as feminine singular) of vēlum covering; (v.) Middle English veilen < Anglo-French veiler, derivative of veile

Related forms

veil·less, adjective

veil·like, adjective

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World English Dictionary

veiled (veɪld)

—*adj*
1.	disguised: a veiled insult
2.	(of sound, tone, the voice, etc) not distinct; muffled

veiledly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

veil

early 13c., from Anglo-Fr. and O.N.Fr. veil (O.Fr. voile) "a head-covering," also "a sail," from L. vela, pl. of velum "sail, curtain, covering," from PIE base *weg- "to weave." Vela was mistaken in V.L. for a fem. sing. noun. The verb (1382) is from O.Fr. veler, voiller, from L. velare "to cover, veil,"

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from velum. Figurative sense of "to conceal" (something immaterial) is recorded from 1530s. To take the veil "become a nun" is attested from early 14c.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

veil (vāl)
n.

See caul.
See velum.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

veil (vāl) Pronunciation Key
A membranous covering or part, especially a membrane surrounding the young mushrooms of certain basidiomycete fungi. In some species the membrane (called a partial veil) extends only from the stalk to the cap. As the cap expands, the veil breaks, leaving a ring called an annulus on the stalk and often scalelike pieces on the cap. These veil remnants are important for identifying species of mushrooms.

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"The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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