What is "unobtrusive"

Usage examples of "unobtrusive".

The constant consideration of all around him, the affectionate cordiality of Sir Lucius, and the unobtrusive devotion of Lady Afy, melted his soul.

Tozri was a good friend and an unobtrusive roommate, and was spending much of his spare time in their room reading everything about Eron he could find in the enormous hold library, which erudition he was passing on to Kraxxi and his sisters.

But it has an oldfashioned love for the modest and unobtrusive virtues, and an abiding faith that they will win over the strained and strident displays of life.

She simply kissed me and ran to a corner lounger turned half away from most of the room, where she would be unobtrusive and out of play-or so the national security agents would believe.

He knew that modern Muggle cameras could be very small and unobtrusive.

She returned it to Ops and took an unobtrusive step back, she hoped far enough out of range.

Nocc looked up at Rince, whose lantern jaws were set in the usual expression of unobtrusive deference.

As if caught up in the folds of this fandangled finery, the waterhorse and swanmaiden and urisk reappeared, an unobtrusive but persistent band of bodyguards.

Ben Pryor and Abe Bernstein sat in a small, unobtrusive booth at the back of the huge room, sipping a pair of Water Witches and watching the unpaid clowns outdraw the professional ones.

Banks, jewelry establishments, even the subtreasury, had these unobtrusive watchers stationed nearby, on the alert every minute of the day.

He did not, however, neglect to leave certain matters to future consideration, which had necessitated further visits, so that the little back room had become quite accustomed to his spare, not unsolid, but unobtrusive figure, and his pale, chinny face with clipped moustache and dark hair not yet grizzling at the sides.

He wore a shiny top-hat and an expensive fur coat, and his neat morning coat, fine linen, unobtrusive black tie and pearl pin suggested the high finance rather than the backstairs of revolution.

Since the whole procedure would now have to start over and I was already a little late for the cholecystectomy, I took the opportunity to make an unobtrusive exit and hurried back to the OR.

John noticed that she took the offered hand of Denbigh to assist her over any little impediment in their course, instead of her usual unobtrusive custom of taking his arm on such occasions.

As she thought this, she was standing outside the university library, unobtrusive as students passed, the campus silent of protest now that Hughes was locked up, strangely Disneyesque once again.