Example Sentences

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Raised in a temporally dissonant, technologically fanciful Victorian-steampunk vision of London, she is the unsubtly named Godwin’s most sublime creation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Unsurprisingly, Fitton is still goading Trump into more legal trouble, by giving interviews unsubtly encouraging Trump to defy the judge's orders not to talk about the case with witnesses.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2023

Buttigieg has unsubtly been contrasting his youth and novelty with the competitors who have been in politics for years.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

At his new imprint, unsubtly named All Points Books, he is attempting a more ecumenical approach.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2017

Pinned or crucified, it was all the same; in crime analysis as in everything these days, personal sense of achievement had been too unsubtly annihilated.

From We're Friends, Now by Varga, Mel