as in thoughtless
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Recent Examples of unsubtle
His robot had been programmed to display unsubtle emotions: happy face, sad face, surprised face.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2025
The high-paying league is an unsubtle warning to the WNBA to significantly, and immediately, up its salary structure.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
By many accounts, including his own unsubtle quips with the music press, Boursinos was hitting the gear hard.
—Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
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.
—Fran Tirado, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2025
The high-paying league is an unsubtle warning to the WNBA to significantly, and immediately, up its salary structure.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
By many accounts, including his own unsubtle quips with the music press, Boursinos was hitting the gear hard.
—Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
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.
—Fran Tirado, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsubtle
Adjective
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These wishes feel to me very thoughtless and insensitive.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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Iris, played by Heretic and Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher, is a gorgeous yet enigmatic young woman who looks something like Zooey Deschanel in her New Girl years but without her happy, slightly thoughtless enthusiasm for life.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
31 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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In another blunt riff on contemporary politics, Marshall hosts his own Tonight Show, by this point in full fascistic uniform.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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Florida’s blunt impact Instead of $182 million to support research, public universities would have received $103 million for indirect costs, a $79 million shortfall, and Florida Atlantic University could have lost roughly $800,000.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Harry would’ve been grumpy and rude, making brusque jokes about inane gender stereotypes and asking direct, invasive questions about anatomy.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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So why would someone well versed in Trumpian tactics and the nuance of Middle East diplomacy give such an undiplomatic assessment?—
Nic Robertson,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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But the football field breeds impolite behavior, on every snap actually.—
Sean Gregory,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Some guests view child-free policies as inconsiderate, while others see them as a practical choice to maintain a certain atmosphere.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Is there a polite way to handle this but still get the point across that their behavior is weird and inconsiderate?—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Unsubtle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsubtle. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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