HOW TO PRONOUNCE
subtly
/ˈsʌt.l̩.li/
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What does subtly mean?
adverb
- With subtleness, in a subtle manner; with cleverness rather than brute force.
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IPA pronunciation
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Nothing had been said, but a sense of trouble subtly diffused itself through those who saw him go out.
The style was easy and smooth and flowing, yet there was something subtly foreign about it—something tropically ornate and sentimental and rhetorical.
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Even more subtly with no show of horror or condemnation, they had gathered something--far from the truth, but something pretty clear--about poverty, vice, and crime.
When Roy had gone she sat for a long time in the pavilion, watching a white mist creeping subtly and remorselessly landward up the harbor.
It appears incredible to me that any kind of trick, however subtly conceived and however adroitly done, could have been played upon us under these conditions.