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Definition
easily noticed — typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual
- "It sounds more conspicuous; and that can hardly be what she wishes," said Mrs. Archer distantly.Chapter 5 (79% in)
- "Why shouldn't she be conspicuous if she chooses?Chapter 5 (80% in)
- As became the high-priest of form, he had formed a wife so completely to his own convenience that, in the most conspicuous moments of his frequent love-affairs with other men's wives, she went about in smiling unconsciousness, saying that "Lawrence was so frightfully strict"; and had been known to blush indignantly, and avert her gaze, when some one alluded in her presence to the fact that Julius Beaufort (as became a "foreigner" of doubtful origin) had what was known in New York as...Chapter 6 (23% in)
- Of course no good could come of this; and when, a few years later, poor Chivers finally died in a madhouse, his widow (draped in strange weeds) again pulled up stakes and departed with Ellen, who had grown into a tall bony girl with conspicuous eyes.Chapter 8 (21% in)
- But if the Countess Olenska was less conspicuous than had been hoped, the Duke was almost invisible.Chapter 8 (52% in)
- But he had not meant to act on it; he was too busy, to begin with, and he did not care, as an engaged man, to play too conspicuously the part of Madame Olenska's champion.Chapter 13 (95% in)
- It had always been understood that he would return to town early in the week, and when he got back from his expedition to Portsmouth a letter from the office, which fate had conspicuously placed on a corner of the hall table, sufficed to justify his sudden change of plan.Chapter 23 (8% in)
- She takes up such odd people—she seems to like to make herself conspicuous.Chapter 31 (92% in)
- It was deeply distasteful to him to do anything melodramatic and conspicuous, anything Mr. van der Luyden would have deprecated and the club box condemned as bad form.Chapter 32 (51% in)
- The tall lamps were all lit, and Mr. van der Luyden's orchids had been conspicuously disposed in various receptacles of modern porcelain and knobby silver.Chapter 33 (34% in)
There are no more uses of "conspicuous" in The Age of Innocence.
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