All 4 Uses of
unobtrusive
in
Bleak House
- From the ceiling, foreshortened Allegory, in the person of one impossible Roman upside down, points with the arm of Samson (out of joint, and an odd one) obtrusively toward the window.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- "Or, my juvenile friends," says Chadband, descending to the level of their comprehension with a very obtrusive demonstration in his greasily meek smile of coming a long way downstairs for the purpose, "if the master of this house was to go forth into the city and there see an eel, and was to come back, and was to call unto him the mistress of this house, and was to say, 'Sarah, rejoice with me, for I have seen an elephant!' would THAT be Terewth?"†
Chpt 25-27
- "Now, I may say to your ladyship at once," says Mr. Guppy, a little emboldened, "it is no matter arising out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce that made me so desirous to speak to your ladyship, which conduct I have no doubt did appear, and does appear, obtrusive—in fact, almost blackguardly."†
Chpt 28-30
- Sir Leicester, avoiding, with some trouble those obtrusive sounds, says, "True."†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(unobtrusive) fitting in so as not to attract much attention or disturb