All 8 Uses
conspicuous
in
A Hope in the Unseen
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- He's conspicuous, yes, as he enters a class in progress, but at least he has a special status, he lives by different rules than the others.†
Chpt 3
- James understands that to get an academic scholarship from a barren school like Ballou you have to be as blazing and conspicuous as Cedric-all A's, dense extracurriculars, special programs, behavior that would even make James a target.†
Chpt 5
- He has rarely felt so conspicuously black.†
Chpt 5 *
- There, at least, everyone stumbles along on the same uncertain footing of como estas and bastante biens and he doesn't feel as conspicuous or obtuse or ill prepared as he does in education class ...and almost everywhere else he goes at Brown.†
Chpt 8
- There is nothing to match the conspicuousness of poor and black-the lot, she is certain, of only one family she knows among the dozens here.†
Chpt 9
- Cedric-his black jeans and long-sleeved black pullover shirt conspicuous in a sea of khakis and blazers, a long piece of celery with goat cheese (he hates goat cheese) dangling from his long fingers-offers a sickly smile to the unctuous eyes.†
Chpt 10
- Tom admires those old Yale professors and desperately wants to fill a similar role for outsiders of his own time, students who, he thinks, carry a heavier burden with skin color than their predecessors ever faced with their less conspicuous ethnicities.†
Chpt 10
- He may well major in math and wants his average in the class to be conspicuously high.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(conspicuous) easily noticed -- typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)