All 7 Uses of
apparent
in
The House of Mirth
- It was the char-woman of the Benedick who, resting on crimson elbows, examined her with the same unflinching curiosity, the same apparent reluctance to let her pass.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- This enmity, however, had apparently expired in a renewal of friendliness between the two women.†
Chpt 1.12
- It was apparently Trenor himself who had been occupying the seat in question, for it was overhung by a cloud of cigar smoke, and near it stood one of those intricate folding tables which British ingenuity has devised to facilitate the circulation of tobacco and spirits.†
Chpt 1.13
- The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair.†
Chpt 2.3
- Dorset had apparently shown marked interest in the girl, and this interest might be used to cruel advantage in his wife's struggle for rehabilitation.†
Chpt 2.3
- They swallowed her past as easily as they did Miss Anstell's, and with no apparent sense of any difference in the size of the mouthful: all they asked was that she should—in her own way, for they recognized a diversity of gifts—contribute as much to the general amusement as that graceful actress, whose talents, when off the stage, were of the most varied order.†
Chpt 2.5
- But if Lily did not mind her detaining her manicure for luncheon, or offering the "Beauty-Doctor" a seat in Freddy Van Osburgh's box at the play, she was not equally at ease in regard to some less apparent lapses from convention.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so