Sample Sentences forconspicuous (editor-reviewed)
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She tried not to look conspicuous as she slipped into class after the tardy bell.conspicuous = easy to notice
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She is the most conspicuous person on the President's cabinet. She is constantly interviewed on television.
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...his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters. (source)conspicuous = easily noticed
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Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush. (source)conspicuous = attracting attention by being easily heard
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I conspicuously rearranged the nubbins in my nose. (source)conspicuously = in an easily noticed manner
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He leads us to the right side of the Pit, which is conspicuously dark. (source)conspicuously = very noticeably
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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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Water being wasted so conspicuously that it shocked her to inner stillness.† (source)
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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.
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Anyway, you should never be conspicuous. (source)conspicuous = easily noticed so as to attract attention
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(With conspicuously brushed hair and jacket) I'm gone† (source)
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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)
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I did not want to look conspicuous. (source)
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The clothes had been laundered until their color had faded, and they had been conspicuously patched.† (source)
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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)
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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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