Sample Sentences for
unobtrusive
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    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
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    I found myself in the middle of the Idlers' Club and made myself as unobtrusive as possible.  (source)
    unobtrusive = inconspicuous (not attracting attention)
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    She is one of those women of a certain grace and beauty who wear it so unobtrusively that it takes a while to notice.  (source)
    unobtrusively = in a manner that does not to attract much attention
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    In high school Laura had been as unobtrusive as Jim had been astonishing.  (source)
    unobtrusive = not conspicuous (not having attracted much attention)
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    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.  (source)
    unobtrusively = undesirably noticeable (something she would rather not see, but can't help but notice)
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    Her rooms were so silent that the music seemed obtrusive.†  (source)
    standard prefix: 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.
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    He walked back the way he had come and went into the hotel, its spastic neon sign obtrusively jutting into the street.  (source)
    obtrusively = in a manner demanding attention
    standard prefix: 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.
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    Richard and I thought it could be done with less obtrusiveness after dark.†  (source)
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    But in fact this unobtrusiveness of demeanour may have proceeded from a certain unaffected modesty of manhood sometimes accompanying a resolute nature, a modesty evinced at all times not calling for pronounced action, and which shown in any rank of life suggests a virtue aristocratic in kind.†  (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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    To do it in ANY way was an act of violence, for what did it consist of but the obtrusion of the idea of grossness and guilt on a small helpless creature who had been for me a revelation of the possibilities of beautiful intercourse?†  (source)
    standard affixes: The meaning of obtrusion will be easier to remember if you think of it in terms of the more common words, obtrusive and unobtrusive. Obtrusive is encountered far more frequently than obtrusion. The suffix -sion makes a noun while the suffix -sive makes an adjective. 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.
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    repeated deeds of munificent yet unobtrusive charity  (source)
    unobtrusive = fitting in so as not to attract much attention
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    (SAM and WILLIE work away as unobtrusively as possible.)  (source)
    unobtrusively = in a manner that fits in so as not to attract much attention or disturb
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    From the kitchen window of his obtrusive house, directly across from the Main Academy Building, Headmaster White could see the small rectangle of bare ground where Dr. Dolder's Volkswagen had spent the night.†  (source)
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