How to Use unsubtle in a Sentence

unsubtle

adjective

• Minter’s is an unsubtle art that preaches to the choir.
  — Charles Desmarais, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
• The mystery is what makes this most unsubtle of elites so electable.
  — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
• The ties to the current, fraught moment in the United States are unsubtle.
  — David Faris, theweek, 26 June 2024
• Mendes said from the stage in an unsubtle swipe at Netflix.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
• Few candidates in the race have gone so far to draw an unsubtle contrast with Mr. Biden as Mr. Buttigieg.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• This brash and unsubtle performance is a Halloween costume, not one of the best four pieces of acting in the world this year.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 5 Mar. 2018
• To give Ruhl credit, these are unsubtle times, and she’s hit on something with the strangeness of Salem itself.
  — Vulture, 5 Dec. 2022
• Even once you get settled in a new job and apartment, the tension between past and present can pop up in subtle and unsubtle ways.
  — Laura Pappano, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2018
• Branagh tosses in an unsubtle metaphor for the foul deeds to come by showing a crocodile leaping from the waters to snap its jaws shut on a bird on the banks of the Nile.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2022
• His life was filled with these kinds of unsubtle injustices.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2021
• But those engaging bits are set amid a sea of melodrama and unsubtle Cold War tropes that can be hard to cringe your way through.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• Strangers occasionally felt the front edge of his board, an unsubtle hint to clear off.
  — Phil Davison, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• Often there was the unsubtle hint that the only way out of Covid restrictions was to elect Trump’s opponent.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Jan. 2024
• As Trump is wont to do, his treatment of the situation quickly made the subtle unsubtle.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• The heart as a whole is a large, unsubtle organ, and those vessels feeding it that aren't the circumference of a D battery are still as fat as thumbs.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• The two men are dressed as babies, and Kim’s dungarees—in an unsubtle nod to the tensions between the Asian country and the rest of the world—feature a grinning cartoon bomb.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2019
• Inside, there’s a counter, three small tables and a portrait of Pierce hanging on distinctly unsubtle red- and green-tiled walls.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 20 Nov. 2019
• The Takeaway: Let us, at least, take a moment to think about the name of the White House lawyer who attended the meeting, and marvel at how very unsubtle reality can be.
  — Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 27 May 2018
• Those unsubtle eye rolls by the editors in our hugely popular YouTube test kitchen videos?
  — Adam Rapoport, Bon Appétit, 16 July 2019
• The musical devices allow grief, and plenty of other emotions, to play out in bold, unsubtle ways.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
• In front of the wolf, which really is lurking around like an unsubtle metaphor at this point, June emits a primal scream that is an expression of all of her inward trauma.
  — refinery29.com, 27 June 2018
• Friel is unsubtle about this: the famine will arrive in just a few years, and characters are already worried about the possibility of blight.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• For everyone who lives in our state and is fatigued by our unsubtle support for these tired symbols of the division that still plagues our nation.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 4 June 2020
• Nikki Fried has been dropping completely unsubtle hints about her plans for months.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 1 June 2021
• The 28-year-old made an early but unsubtle arrival to the Academy Awards, wearing a bondage harness sewn into his blazer.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2018
• And some human resource managers have come out against Musk’s unsubtle approach.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
• There are repeating patterns, questions that get posed again and again, themes that become clearer and more unsubtle the more often they are rehearsed.
  — Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
• His efforts to bully the central bank into seeing things his way have been unsubtle—and successful.
  — The Economist, 19 May 2018
• Those who stepped forward were assigned to a dizzying array of new enforcement bodies, with rather unsubtle names.
  — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Suffice to say, attempting to end a delicate horror puzzle with a brutally unsubtle action sequence is the filmmaking equivalent of treating a demon child via gun.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024