obtrusively

ADVERB
  1. in an obtrusive manner
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How To Use obtrusively In A Sentence

  • The book's origin in undergraduate lectures is clear, but not - given the author's aims - obtrusively so.
  • There were always a couple of them, with a scribe lurking unobtrusively in the background and taking notes in an indecipherable shorthand.
  • The broad expanse of shirt-front, with its delicate embroidery, not obtrusively splendid, but minutely elaborate rather, involving the largest expenditure of needlework to produce the smallest and vaguest effect -- a suspicion of richness, as it were, nothing more; the snowy cambric contrasts with the bronzed visage of the soldier, or blends harmoniously with the fair complexion of the fopling, who has never exposed his countenance to the rough winds of heaven; the expanse of linen proclaims the breadth of chest, and gives a factitious slimness to the waist. The Lovels of Arden
  • Sowho are these merchants of noise, who work so hard, and so unobtrusively to dominate our attention, while hiding their malignance behind the frenzied smiles and desperate flim-flam of others who more effectively command our loyalty, respect, admiration and even doting adoration? Have you a radio or tv?
  • Counseling was ongoing and placed unobtrusively into the daily routine.
  • He ranks high among the great detectives of fiction but does so unobtrusively, disdaining self-advertisement.
  • Counseling was ongoing and placed unobtrusively into the daily routine.
  • Not to me, quiet, creeping unobtrusively about the old house, childminding, never a whisper of flirtation in me. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • The excerpts taken from complete recordings required some fade-ins and fade-outs, and Decca's engineers have handled these as unobtrusively as possible.
  • Counseling was ongoing and placed unobtrusively into the daily routine.
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