Unobtrusive vs Unobtrusively - What's the difference?
unobtrusive | unobtrusively |
Not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous.
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In an unobtrusive manner; in a manner that is not noticeable or blatant.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
As an adjective unobtrusive
is not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous.As an adverb unobtrusively is
in an unobtrusive manner; in a manner that is not noticeable or blatant.unobtrusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
unobtrusively
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He felt not the slightest doubt in his mind that this was the girl who had written him, and, having given an order to the waiter, he started to study her face as unobtrusively as possible.