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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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
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The hearing swung from thoughtless to scandalous when one representative suggested that the murderous hawk was a better mascot for Planned Parenthood than for New Hampshire.—
Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
28 Dec. 2024
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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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
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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
Adjective
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And Butler’s brusque, beady-eyed, scowling-hulk charisma has aged well.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Jan. 2025
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Four years later, following her Curb Your Enthusiasm self-parody comeback episode earlier this year, Loughlin now stars as the brusque Lieutenant Bishop in On Call, marking her return to television in a recurring role.—
Brande Victorian,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Dec. 2024
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
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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 1 Feb. 2025.
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