unsubtly

English

Etymology

From unsubtle +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

unsubtly (comparative more unsubtly, superlative most unsubtly)

1. In an unsubtle manner.
   • 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama‎^[1], volume 25, →DOI, page 90 of 89–118:

     In fact, anxiety about female sexuality might be considered a displaced version of anxiety about female authority, insofar as a causative relation between these two can ever be established. Accusations of sexual impropriety often were unsubtly coded attacks on women's perceived dominance over men in a nonsexual sphere.