Sample sentences for UNOBTRUSIVE

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Definition

fitting in so as not to attract much attention or disturb

The web site has a lot of ads, but they are unobtrusively placed on the far right of the screen.

unobtrusively = fitting in so as not to attract much attention or disturb

I stopped using that website. The ads were too obtrusive.

obtrusive = attracting too much attention

(Editor's note: Unobtrusive is encountered more than twice as commonly as any form of obtrusive without the prefix un-. The prefix "un-" in unobtrusive means not and reverses the meaning of obtrusive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

She sat unobtrusively in the rear of the room.

unobtrusively = in a manner that fits in so as not to attract much attention or disturb others

I'd like a photographer to take candid shots in an unobtrusive manner.

unobtrusive = fitting in so as not to attract much attention or disturb

The videographer was so unobtrusive, we forgot she was there.

unobtrusive = fitting in so as not to attract much attention or disturb

...I find them obtrusive and obnoxious.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Vanished Messenger

In high school Laura had been as unobtrusive as Jim had been astonishing.
Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie

unobtrusive = not conspicuous (not having attracted much attention)

Fang waited for him to get his food and unobtrusively led him to the most private booth.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment

unobtrusively = in a manner that fits in so as not to attract much attention or disturb others

She is one of those women of a certain grace and beauty who wear it so unobtrusively that it takes a while to notice.
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun

unobtrusively = in a manner that does not to attract much attention

Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

unobtrusively = undesirably noticeable (something she would rather not see, but can't help but notice)

I found myself in the middle of the Idlers' Club and made myself as unobtrusive as possible.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

unobtrusive = inconspicuous (not attracting attention)

...we attempt to watch it unobtrusively,
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark

unobtrusively = in a manner that does not to attract much attention or disturb

Methinks it is like water from a heavenly fountain; for it contains I know not what of unobtrusive fragrance and deliciousness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

unobtrusive = subtle (fitting in so as not to attract much attention or disturb)

(SAM and WILLIE work away as unobtrusively as possible.)
Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys

unobtrusively = in a manner that fits in so as not to attract much attention or disturb

He walked back the way he had come and went into the hotel, its spastic neon sign obtrusively jutting into the street.
Junot Diaz -- Drown

obtrusively = in a manner demanding attention

(Editor's note: Unobtrusive is encountered more than twice as commonly as any form of obtrusive without the prefix un-. The prefix "un-" in unobtrusively means not and reverses the meaning of obtrusively. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

She was eating saltines and juice, the only things she could keep down, while I tried to eat my potato chips quietly and unobtrusively.
Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You

unobtrusively = in a manner that fits in so as not to disturb

repeated deeds of munificent yet unobtrusive charity
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Fall of the House of Usher

unobtrusive = fitting in so as not to attract much attention

She was appalled by West Egg, ...by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

But he was positively obtrusive at this moment, and his dimpled hands were quite disagreeable.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch

Tulliver felt very much as if the air had been cleared of obtrusive flies now the women were out of the room.
Eliot, George -- The Mill on the Floss

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