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Definition

open and observable; not secret or hidden

overt intelligence gathering

overt = not secret or hidden

overt hostility
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Hamilton, Alexander -- Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
There was no overt or subtle condemnation.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
No person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
It was never said overtly, but .... we all had a sense something big was coming, and we've been drilled on what to do."
Kass Morgan -- The 100
"The Effects of Overt Head Movements on Persuasion," Basic and Applied Social Psychology (198®). vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 219-230.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
A masculine voice, but not overtly masculine.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
Now you've said the first overt incident all of you witnessed involved a man who'd had several beers.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
They did not mean for it to say too much overtly, and at the same time they wished for it to say everything.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
To all of them, adult women were threatening creatures, and in two cases there was overt sexual perversion.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
He jumped to his feet and held his Transvice at the ready, without overtly showing it as a threat.
James Dashner -- The Kill Order
Good whites—not the type that is overtly bigoted— urged us to "work, study, lift ourselves up by our bootstraps."
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
In the short term that will prevent him from an overt attack.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
None moved against them overtly, but they were closing in on the tracks, a silent, hideous party of rubberneckers.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Not even the bull fighter, Lorenzo Garza, or the great boxer, Panchito Billa, provoked the kind of overt joy in Monterrey like these children did.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
Cheryl's drug problem had become more consuming and overt.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

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