veiled threat

It was the first time in days that he'd made any veiled threat to her.

There also are veiled threats at some of the medical groups.

"They were taken as a veiled threat," said the president of a major industrial company.

She did not miss the veiled threat, or the irony.

If they came around tonight with their veiled threats, he'd call the cops on them.

"You ask for peace but give us a veiled threat at the same time.

The letter also included a veiled threat of more shootings to come.

I was expecting a thinly veiled threat or two, at least.

That, and the veiled threat of finding another dealer who was less particular.

He said that there had been veiled threats on our family if I didn't come back.

He has been making veiled threats against the employees to keep them from forming a union.

"I'm saying that his first message seemed to me to be both a veiled threat and a call to action.

Players' agents said some of the calls from league officials included veiled threats.

"Good, because anything else would just make life unpleasant for us all," she concluded, the veiled threat clear.

They say there were veiled threats about what might happen if they did not.

He was suspected of wearing a body wire and received veiled threats.

Praise, promise of glory, and veiled threat all in one.

To me that of sounds like a veiled threat.

There was a scarcely veiled threat in his voice.

The thinly veiled threat was not lost on the slaver.

The lord tensed, as if afraid of some veiled threat.

Any person could hear the words between the words, the thinly veiled threat.

There is a veiled threat of taking the property, if need be, by eminent domain.

Whatever action is eventually decided, one official said, may be more of a veiled threat than formal retaliation.

And the Jewish leaders here are not intimidated by the veiled threats of backlash.