All 10 Uses
conspicuous
in
1776, by McCullough
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- As the night wore on, Lord North, the stout, round-shouldered Prime Minister, remained conspicuously silent in his front-bench seat, his large, nearsighted eyes and full cheeks giving him the look, as the wit Horace Walpole said, of a blind trumpeter.†
p. 16.5
- As a provincial officer fighting with the British army during General Edward Braddock's defeat in western Pennsylvania, he had shown conspicuous courage under fire and a marked ability for leadership.†
p. 45.8
- Yet he had attended Congress in his splendid blue and buff uniform, conspicuously signaling a readiness to take command.†
p. 49.9 *
- But others, Loyalists, had sought refuge there, and Loyalists were conspicuous, if not necessarily more numerous than those inhabitants who had chosen to stay in the hope of protecting their property, or because they were too poor or helpless to do anything else.†
p. 73.9
- THE BRITISH COMMANDER, an easygoing, affable man who had never been averse to taking his pleasures when he could, was openly enjoying himself through the winter with his own elegant dinners, extended evenings at the faro table, and conspicuously in the company of a stunning young woman about whom there was much talk.†
p. 75.7
- Conspicuous by his absence was Nathanael Greene, who had been stricken with jaundice.†
p. 87.2
- Conspicuous among those who began crowding the wharves, and who took their turns going aboard the ships on March 10 and in the days that followed, were many who had once figured prominently in the government of the province and in its professional and commercial life.†
p. 102.1
- Those pages in the annals of America will record your title to be a conspicuous place in the temple of fame, which shall inform posterity, that under your directions, an undisciplined band of husbandmen, in the course of a few months, became soldiers.†
p. 109.1
- Loyalist, or Tory, sentiment, while less conspicuous than it had been, was widespread and ranged from the militant to the disaffected to those hesitant about declaring themselves patriots for a variety of reasons, trade and commerce not being the least of them.†
p. 118.9
- With the situation as grim as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington, making his rounds on horseback in the rain.†
p. 185.1
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)