What is "unobtrusively"

Usage examples of "unobtrusively".

Alastair Bing, received the usual nod, and slipped unobtrusively away.

I stood up, too, feeling Kutzko, Calandra, and Ifversn come up behind us, the two shields moving unobtrusively into flanking positions at our sides.

She would have to find a way to unobtrusively touch each and every one of her friends, and open herself willingly to whatever her psychometric powers found.

And now Charles Vyse, a final nod of the head, took his place at the head of the table, and Poirot slipped unobtrusively into a seat next to Lazarus.

I spent the time scavenging paper and ink as unobtrusively as I might, working on various missives by the light of our campfires at night, and during the day, riding among the women of the zenana and conversing with the Ephesians.

Involuntarily but unobtrusively, under cover of the little tubbed trees that hedged the terrasse apart from the square, Duchemin did likewise, and so discovered, or for the first time appreciated, the cause of the uncommonly early dusk that loured over Nant.

Schatel unbent enough to show them a couch near the loan department where they could wait and watch unobtrusively.

Kea noticed, as he slid unobtrusively to the cashbox, that the man was a Samoan.

Neither neighbor of the successful invader paid any overt attention to matters as they now stood, but Gelvarry noticed that as they bobbed and weaved at their machines, with the new monkey between them and with the dead cranker supine at his feet, they unobtrusively extended their limbs and tails to nudge lightly at the body, until they had almost inadvertently kicked it out of sight behind the machines.

He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street coat for a more sober office jacket, adjusted a green eyeshade below his primly brushed grayish hair, unostentatiously sat down at the copy desk, and unobtrusively opened a drawer.

Bothan snapped, jabbing a hand at the lightsaber hanging unobtrusively beneath her loose overjacket.

Foto and used car pennants to draw up unobtrusively among the shopping carts littering the R Dan Snively Memorial Parking Lot.

He unobtrusively eyed the arrangement of table, chair, and sword, and then, moving as suddenly as he could, punched Stonehand on the jaw.

Staff tended to clump together to continue their conversations or meetings and the students milled round, refused to clear a way for the fire appliances and tried to head unobtrusively but inexorably for the pub or home.

Using their own discarded skins from moulting, along with fine waxy threads, they construct little domelike shells, or scales, under which they carry on as unobtrusively as possible, often blending in with the plant.