The president tried to make his case for war by subtly appealing to the electorate's deep-seated suspicion of Arabs.
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Subtly
//ˈsʌt.l̩.li//
Synonyms for "subtly" (2 found)
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Related words (1)
Adverb(1 words)
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3 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- изкусно adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
- ловко adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
- хитро adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Catalan
1 entries- subtilment adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Esperanto
1 entries- subtile adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Finnish
1 entries- hienovaraisesti adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
French
1 entries- subtilement adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Galician
1 entries- sutilmente adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Italian
3 entries- sottilmente adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
- subdolamente adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
- velatamente adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Polish
2 entries- delikatnie adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
- subtelnie adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- sutilmente adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Spanish
1 entries- sutilmente adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Turkish
1 entries- altan altan adv (with subtleness, in a subtle manner)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
George Eliot is subtly subversive: there are have-nots on every fringe, and her women collaborate in exquisitely detailed mutual oppression.
Source: tatoeba (2030675)
When you are talking to someone, sometimes you are unaware that subtly, you are talking about yourself and what is happening in your own life.
Source: tatoeba (2172908)
It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation.
Source: tatoeba (5749611)
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