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conspicuous
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  • He leads us to the right side of the Pit, which is conspicuously dark.  (source)
    conspicuously = very noticeably
  • ...his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters.  (source)
    conspicuous = easily noticed
  • They came out and went back on to the path where the trees might possibly make them less conspicuous.  (source)
    conspicuous = easily seen
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  • Anyway, you should never be conspicuous.  (source)
    conspicuous = easily noticed so as to attract attention
  • The clothes had been laundered until their color had faded, and they had been conspicuously patched.†  (source)
  • There is nothing to match the conspicuousness of poor and black-the lot, she is certain, of only one family she knows among the dozens here.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • I did not want to look conspicuous.  (source)
  • We see it every day: in the obituaries for teenage kids that conspicuously omit the cause of death (reading between the lines: overdose), in the deadbeats we watch our daughters waste their time with.†  (source)
  • But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion.†  (source)
  • this group of rich and conspicuous people.  (source)
    conspicuous = prominent (easily noticed)
  • We positioned ourselves around the cherrywood consulting table rather like guests at a club who are conspicuously not membership material.†  (source)
  • This conspicuousness, aided by the characters of the host and hostess, gave the tavern an advantage over all its future competitors that no circumstances could conquer.†  (source)
  • I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.  (source)
    conspicuous = very noticeable (attention-attracting)
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