"subtle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- William won't take Reggie's hint to leave them alone, and his own hints ("feeling a little giddy, might be food related") are hardly subtle.
- Coon was a firm believer in racial hierarchy, and he was hardly subtle about it.
- The head of the household is moving out, but the family lurches forward blindly - it's hardly subtle, but it works.
- South African help-wanted ads are hardly subtle about whom they are looking for.
- The arguments were hardly subtle and indeed sometimes boiled down to the level of whose flagpole is bigger.
- Despite the girls' ages, the ad's sexual imagery is hardly subtle.
- It would have been an effective irony if handled with subtlety, but Giordano is hardly subtle.
- The contrast between these two characters and their ways of looking at the world is hardly subtle.
- The title's irony is hardly subtle: have we gained the whole world, Powers wants to know, only to lose our souls?
- A duo of baked clams and garlicky shrimp, while hardly subtle, nonetheless worked as well.
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