All 3 Uses of
subtle
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Mr. Jan Coggan, who had passed the cup to Henery, was a crimson man with a spacious countenance and private glimmer in his eye, whose name had appeared on the marriage register of Weatherbury and neighbouring parishes as best man and chief witness in countless unions of the previous twenty years; he also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly-jovial kind.†
Chpt 7-9
- The cabala of this erotic philosophy seemed to consist of the subtlest meanings expressed in misleading ways.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Her culpability lay in her making no attempt to control feeling by subtle and careful inquiry into consequences.†
Chpt 28-30
Definition:
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(subtle as in: a subtle shade of blue) understated so as not to draw excess attention