“unobtrusive”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

unobtrusive

释义

unobˈtrusive, a.
(un-¹ 7, 5 b.)
In common use from c 1800.
1743Young Nt. Th. iv. 625 Ye Quietists,..who mildly make An unobtrusive tender of your hearts.1790H. More Relig. Fash. World (1791) 131 Those secret habits of self-controul, those interior and unobtrusive virtues.1828Mackintosh Char. Canning Wks. 1846 II. 457 His manner was simple and unobtrusive; his language always quite familiar.1840Dickens Old C. Shop xiv, I trace the same current now, flowing through all his quiet and unobtrusive proceedings.1890‘L. Falconer’ Mlle. Ixe vi, Captain Leslie kept unobtrusive, but attentive watch.
Hence unobˈtrusiveness.
1797Jane Austen Sense & Sens. xlvi, She saw only an emotion..in its unobtrusiveness entitled to praise.1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iii. viii, He is an object of observation from his very unobtrusiveness.1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. II. 152/2 All walls, however decorated,..must retire even behind the furniture by their unobtrusiveness.

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