as in thoughtless
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Recent Examples of unsubtle
Quispe López The Substance Takes Feminine Beauty Ideals to a Grotesque Extreme
A career-best Demi Moore stars in the polarizing and delightfully unsubtle horror tale.
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Fran Tirado, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
These first few lines of dialogue are deeply unsubtle, perhaps characteristically.
—James Factora, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Still, Zuckerberg has made increasingly unsubtle overtures to Trump, who has threatened the Facebook founder over the years.
—Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 12 Dec. 2024
But the musical’s politics are as unsubtle as any other aspect of this lumbering show.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Fran Tirado, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
These first few lines of dialogue are deeply unsubtle, perhaps characteristically.
—James Factora, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Still, Zuckerberg has made increasingly unsubtle overtures to Trump, who has threatened the Facebook founder over the years.
—Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 12 Dec. 2024
But the musical’s politics are as unsubtle as any other aspect of this lumbering show.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsubtle
Adjective
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Such a thoughtless bride will not register the slight anyway.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps a bored retiree at home one New Year’s Eve will spot thoughtless kids shooting off fireworks one year.—
Penny Abeywardena,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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At the end of the day, Cooper's guilty of being tactless.—
Samantha Highfill,
EW.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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The interviews were jocular, an approach that seemed tactless, given the film’s subject matter.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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And your only question is how to deal with an ungracious host?—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2025
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To have remained stone silent was ungracious.—
Abigail Van Buren,
oregonlive,
31 May 2022
Adjective
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Officers found Mary Ogle dead inside the house with apparent blunt force trauma, police said.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
23 Jan. 2025
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While tariffs offer a quick, broad response to unfair trade practices, they're often criticized as too blunt an instrument.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Commerzbank was previously targeted for takeover by the country’s largest lender Deutsche Bank, before the brusque collapse of initial talks in 2019.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
23 Jan. 2025
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And Butler’s brusque, beady-eyed, scowling-hulk charisma has aged well.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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His undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland and even Canada — have left world leaders scrambling to respond.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
11 Jan. 2025
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Aziz Taher/Reuters Indeed, Mr. Biden’s exasperation with Mr. Netanyahu exploded in a recent phone call between the two, when the president reportedly shouted at the Israeli prime minister and told him in heated undiplomatic terms to stop misleading him.—
Howard LaFranchi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Many filmmakers try to disguise their less socially acceptable prejudices, their impolite fears, dislikes and worse, but Lynch always seemed unafraid or maybe uninterested or just unaware about what others thought of his uglier visions.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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One of the myths Dunlap tackles in her book is that talking about money is impolite.—
Katy McFee,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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According to Newsweek, stories of revenge against rude behavior often go viral, with many readers finding satisfaction in seeing inconsiderate actions receive their due consequences.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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The situation escalated during a private conversation in which the father accused the son of being inconsiderate.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Unsubtle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsubtle. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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