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inconspicuous
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  • The microphone was small and inconspicuous, tucked neatly into the speaker’s lapel.
    inconspicuous = not attracting attention
  • The spy moved through the crowded marketplace, remaining inconspicuous among the bustling shoppers.
  • Inconspicuous as he was, however, he managed to take hold of the biggest potato of the lot—the very same one that several people in the line had been watching.  (source)
    Inconspicuous = not easily noticed
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  • I tried to remain inconspicuous in the newsroom, but one of the typesetters, a crabbed, chain-smoking woman who always wore a hairnet, took a dislike to me.  (source)
    inconspicuous = not very noticeable
  • I realized my maids had inconspicuously dismissed themselves at some point as well.  (source)
    inconspicuously = in a manner that is not easily noticed
  • A rabbit in fear of an enemy will sometimes crouch stock still, either fascinated or else trusting to its natural inconspicuousness to remain unnoticed.†  (source)
    inconspicuousness = the quality of not being very noticeable
    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.
  • Leaving Pasha and Petya behind, the captain led the Count and his escort to a utility stair hidden behind an inconspicuous door in the core of the hotel.  (source)
    inconspicuous = not very noticeable
  • Awake and having recovered the use of his legs, Bernard had chosen this moment to move as inconspicuously as he could towards the door.  (source)
    inconspicuously = in a manner that is not easily noticed
  • Though his popularity was of the quiet kind, felt rather than actively expressed among his friends, she had never mistaken his inconspicuousness for obscurity.†  (source)
    inconspicuousness = the quality of not being very noticeable
  • He made his way painfully into the workshop, where a curtain concealed a niche containing an old, inconspicuous cupboard.  (source)
    inconspicuous = not very noticeable
  • I stand up and walk out into the hall, as inconspicuously as possible.†  (source)
    inconspicuously = in a manner that is not easily noticed
  • She had remembered it only as a bleak inconspicuousness.†  (source)
    inconspicuousness = the quality of not being very noticeable
  • With these attributes, however, he would not remain as inconspicuous as we wished him to: that year, the school buzzed with talk about him defending Tom Robinson, none of which was complimentary.  (source)
    inconspicuous = not very noticeable
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