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unsubtly

unsubtly adverb: in an unsubtle manner.

Adverb

unsubtly (comparative more unsubtly, superlative most unsubtly)

  1. In an unsubtle manner.
    • In fact, anxiety about female sexuality might be considered a displaced version of anxiety about female authority, insofar as a causative relation between these two can ever be established. Accusations of sexual impropriety often were unsubtly coded attacks on women's perceived dominance over men...1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page...

Forms of unsubtly

comparativemore unsubtly
superlativemost unsubtly

Origin of unsubtly

From unsubtle + -ly.

Questions about unsubtly

What does unsubtly mean?
Unsubtly means in an unsubtle manner.
What part of speech is unsubtly?
Unsubtly is an adverb.

Words near unsubtly in the dictionary

  1. unsubtle
  2. unsubtleness
  3. unsubtler
  4. unsubtlest
  5. unsubtlety
  6. unsubtly
  7. unsubtract
  8. unsubtracted
  9. unsubtypable
  10. unsubtyped
  11. unsuburban

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