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Definition of Inconspicuously
1. Adverb. In a manner intended to avoid attracting attention. "He had entered the room inconspicuously"
Definition of Inconspicuously
1. Adverb. In an inconspicuous manner; so as not to attract attention or appear unusual or out of the ordinary. ¹
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Definition of Inconspicuously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconspicuously
Literary usage of Inconspicuously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The City of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922 by Clarence Monroe Burton, William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company (1922)
"It is all right to dress inconspicuously, but, in reality you sell yourself and
your opinions. Your success depends upon the worth of your opinions. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... acute, closely appressed, inconspicuously glandular : abundant staminate fls.
... keeled and somewhat thickened at the apex, inconspicuously glandular, ..."
3. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1899)
"... pedicelled spikelets reddish, lanceolate, acute, outer glume with a weak
slender awn equal or shorter than itself, inconspicuously 7- to 9-nerved, ..."
4. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Heads inconspicuously radiate. Involucre double: bracts of the inner series
becoming bur-like, each one surrounding an achene. Ligules of the ray-corollas ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"umbel lax; rays few, 4 in. long or less; spikelets linear, 5-12 lines long,
inconspicuously spicate on the branches, few in a cluster, dull; scales 1^ lines ..."
6. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Leaves conspicuously clasping, the auricles generally Leaves slightly or
inconspicuously clasping . Bracts linear-attenuate, thin, with elender green or ..."
7. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871)
"He works in silence, and inconspicuously, and almost hiddenly. And so they work
importantly who work by thought, by love, by zeal, ..."
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