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Definition of Concealingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concealingly
Literary usage of Concealingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"In very many cases where the young are concealingly colored, the adults have a
different and relatively a revealing coloration; and in very many cases where ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1916)
"... size and by its white upper tail-coverts, which show conspicuously in flight.
On the ground the bird stands low, and is very concealingly colored, ..."
3. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"The fire of dissatisfaction had long since been concealingly fed on both sides, &
its flame at the time of the stamp Act in 1765 soon spread out from Boston ..."
4. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"... could, perhaps, be called concealingly colored—certainly as compared with
impalla or Tommies or ..."
5. A Book-lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt (1920)
"The fledglings are concealingly colored, and crouch motionless, so as to escape
notice from possible enemies; and the eggs, while they do not in color ..."
6. The Life of Theodore Roosevelt by William Draper Lewis (1919)
"Nevertheless certain writers have claimed that all forms of animals are concealingly
colored and that this underlying principle is the explanation of the ..."
7. Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel by David Graham Phillips (1909)
"He decided it was a mistake for any human being in any circumstances to be
absolutely natural and un- concealingly candid. " We're such shallow fakers," ..."
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