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unsubtle

a. not subtle; obvious

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unsubtle

adj. lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave" [syn: broad]

Usage examples of "unsubtle".

As Parliamentarians met with the guilds, whose demands became more organised, as the Caucus spoke out from its unsubtle front organs, Pelorus Fields was anxious.

But they were as pitiless and unsubtle as the stark black-and-white land that sheltered them, and they had killed almost casually the handful of off worlders who had gotten in their way.

Before Tobin could think up a way to put the girl at ease and coax the information out of herand had she just accused Chay of being unsubtle?

Still, the shell counter was blatantly unsubtle, for aworking of the Great Game.

The consumerist religion whose roots found purchase in the previous century, whose first unwitting prophets are the unheralded shapers of our present, has sounded its evangel and like a great wave has washed over every shore, immersing all but a few unreceptive souls in the dayglo colors and unsubtle music of its innocuous paradise vision.

It seemed to me such an easy way to win the case, but far too unsubtle, of course, for a brilliant barrister-at-law like yourself.

Thousands of floral bouquets harvested from the fields and lowlands had been placed about the bullring -- an unsubtle hint that the Duke liked the people to strew the ground with blossoms each time he dispatched a bull.

Thousands of floral bouquets harvested from the fields and lowlands had been placed about the bullring — an unsubtle hint that the Duke liked the people to strew the ground with blossoms each time he dispatched a bull.

She kept forgetting that the big man's unsubtle mannerisms did not denote any obtusity of mind or feeling.

Beyond that, a hydroponics complex gave off the unsubtle odor of organic fertilizer.

They had the most bizarre theories about fire lizards and a few unsubtle queries about when would her queen fly to mate and how soon would there be a clutch and how many in it.