All 8 Uses of
subtle
in
Black Like Me
- Some were shamelessly open, some shamelessly subtle.
*subtle = working in an indirect or hidden way
- The experience had subtler points that did not escape Rutledge.
*subtler = harder to notice or understand
- I realized I was "going against the race" and the subtle tug-of-war became instantly clear.†
- Tragedy turned him into one of the subtlest and sharpest satirists in American letters.†
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- Yet here the tone was subtly conniving.†
- We had engaged in a subtle battle of which I think he had only then become aware.†
- For a moment I knew the intimate and subtle joys of misery.†
- The subtlety of it escaped the whites on the bus, but it in no way escaped the driver or the Negroes at the back.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(subtle as in: a subtle poison) working in an indirect or hidden way
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(2)
(subtle as in: a subtle shade of blue) understated so as not to draw excess attention
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(3)
(subtle as in: a subtle difference or thinker) not obvious, but noticeable with enough insight and knowledge
or:
able to notice or understand things that require insight and sensitivity