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• Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate.From the entry destroy
• Geng Dingxiang emphasised its non-abstruse and non-profound aspect of refined subtlety within coarse shallowness.2021, Xuezhi Zhang, History of Chinese Philosophy in the Ming Dynasty, page 392. From the entry non-abstruse
• Guess who's thinking again about how insanely hot 0 subtlety latex clad permadiapers are?2021 February 28, @CaretakerQuilts, Twitter. From the entry permadiaper
• Perhaps the worst offender is the LOLer who has no grasp of nuance or subtlety.2009 September 22, Malcolm Venable, “Once-welcome LOL is now virtually DOA, and here's why”, in The Virginian-Pilot. From the entry LOLer
• It's hard to say; the German is a language of great subtlety.1999 December 30, Mark Devlin, “Fütterung von Irish Tinker”, in de.rec.tiere.pferde (Usenet). From the entry teutonophone
• There was a subtlety, an unshouting elegance about her, that was especially attractive in one so young.1984, Nancy Holmes, The Big Girls, page 26. From the entry unshouting
• Popular music, most hymns, semipopular music, and most folk music lack subtlety.1959, Charles Leonhard, Robert William House, Foundations and principles of music education. From the entry semipopular
• If you truly wish to understand what she meant, you must approach it diaphagetically, considering the subtleties around her words.2023, Nathan Hancock, Echoes of the Spiritless, Ranchman Publishing, page 42. From the entry diaphagetically
• Still further, in a moment when subtlety and withstraint are needed, nationalist masses may force the PRC to act rashly.2023, Thomas M. Kane, Noah Falkovich, Chinese Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: According to Plan?. From the entry withstraint
• As with all things, the key is subtlety.2013 March 12, Betches, Nice Is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything, illustrated edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry mupload
• Zarfian surrealism without Zarfian skill or subtlety.1998, Jake Wildstrom, “[COMP '98] Reviews (Feel free to hate me for them...)”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet). From the entry Zarfian
• With little subtlety, candidates aped selected Kennedyesque features.1995, Paul R. Henggeler, The Kennedy persuasion: the politics of style since JFK. From the entry Kennedyesque
• Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 37. From the entry arid
• Poets may be incurious of the subtleties of philological eristic, but they are wont to see into the heart of things.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “IV. Prometheus”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 111. From the entry eristic
• With the subtleties of dressing ran other complex worries.1922, Sinclair Lewis, “1”, in Babbitt, page 10. From the entry punk
• They were as fine as the lines of a human body, they were informed with the subtlety of art.1921, Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow, Penguin Books, published 1955, page 7. From the entry galbe
• But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart?1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page…. From the entry decorous
• If we desire to find the hidden meaning and subtlety of the pictorial symbols we must search these mediæval encyclopediæ.1911, Alfred Maskell, Wood Sculpture, page 341. From the entry encyclopediæ
• “The fox tox look strikes a balance between drama and subtlety by giving your brows a noticeable lift that’s still fresh and natural,” says Marris.2024 December 5, Jessica Fields, quoting Melanie Marris, “2 Brow Looks We’re Going to See Everywhere in 2025, According to a Celeb Brow…. From the entry fox tox
• “There was no tactical subtlety whatsoever.2022 December 10, Harry Taylor, quoting Kwasi Kwarteng, “Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng”…. From the entry carried away
• Digital play might inhibit this slowliness, because, as mentioned earlier, there is not the same responsiveness to the subtleties of the touch interaction.2019, Mona Sakr, Digital Play in Early Childhood: What's the Problem?. From the entry slowliness
• I'd long believed that he was noticing more and more of my subtleties, and was growing ever more conscious of my secret shepherdings.2015, Libbie Hawker, House of Rejoicing. From the entry shepherding
• The tired storyline, centered on a lesbian couple's search for a sperm donor, is irritatingly spoofish and lacks the subtlety that makes for great send-ups.2006, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film, page 115. From the entry send-up
• As he climbed into the car, his recce of the space behind the seats was still a little too obvious despite best efforts at subtlety.2006, Vincent Tuckwood, Karaoke Criminals. From the entry recce
• Among the inscrutable terms invented to parse the stylistic subtleties of rock music, “bedroom pop” stands out as an elegantly descriptive coinage.[2006 January 26, Hugo Lindgren, “Garbagehead Revisited”, in New York. From the entry bedroom pop
• This is exciting, high-strung, Horowitzian pianism that is tempered by unfailing good taste, tonal subtlety, and a true sense of Lisztian style.1991, The American record guide, volume 54, numbers 1-3. From the entry Horowitzian
• However, prey are usually assigned to broad taxonomic or pseudotaxonomic categories, which may not allow the subtleties of predator impacts to be interpreted.1991, Peter F. Sale (editor), The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, page 159. From the entry pseudotaxonomic
• Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 701. From the entry yeared
• Since their subtlety can lead to misunderstandings with other species, the elcor often go out of their way to clarify when they are being sarcastic, amused, or angry.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Elcor Codex entry. From the entry infrasound
• It offers few subtleties, but those can be effective, as when the chorus is backlighted in the rear of the auditorium to produce an ominous play of shadows onstage.2007 June 2, James R. Oestreich, “Strange, Faraway Fantasies of Hell and Paradise”, in New York Times. From the entry backlight
• Our mission is not only to stop the "culturecides" initiated by us, but also to recognize the treasures of experience, wisdom, and subtlety in the cultures we are annihilating.2003, Edgar Morin, “European Civilization: Properties and Challenges”, in Mehdi Mozaffari, editor, Globalization and Civilizations…. From the entry culturicide
• Nut oils have the same problem; they work against the flavors in the dairy fats to muddy each other’s subtleties, resulting in a flat, peanut-buttery taste.1987, John Thorne, Simple Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry peanut-buttery
• Poetry's captureless incipience is unavailable to such brutal measures which, rather than participating in the subtleties of the poem, slice them up according to the dominant deceits of public discourse.2013, Anthony Howe, Byron and the Forms of Thought. From the entry captureless
• The various plotters and counterplotters go their devious ways, proceeding with all the subtlety of bulls in china shops, but we never do learn what the plot is all about.1933 January 29, “My Lady Dangerous. By Sydney Horler. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry bull in a china shop

Meaning of subtlety

1. noun The quality of being scarcely noticeable or difficult to discern. (of things).
2. noun The quality of being done in a clever way that is not obvious or not direct; the quality of being carefully thought out. (of things).
3. noun The quality of being able to achieve one's aims through clever, delicate or indirect methods. (of people).

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Questions about subtlety in a sentence

How do you use subtlety in a sentence?

Subtlety is used as a noun. For example: “With all his usual subtlety, he quietly fixed the problem before anyone else noticed it.”

What is a short sentence with subtlety?

““There was no tactical subtlety whatsoever.”

What does subtlety mean?

Subtlety means the quality of being scarcely noticeable or difficult to discern. (of things).