subtly
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English sotilly; equivalent to subtle + -ly.
Pronunciation
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Adverb
subtly (comparative more subtly, superlative most subtly)
- With subtleness, in a subtle manner. With cleverness rather than brute force.
- 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Translations
with subtleness, in a subtle manner
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