veiled
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]veiled
- Covered by a veil.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- As usual, Ayesha was veiled like the marble Truth (by the way, I wonder if she originally got the idea of covering up her beauty from that statue?).
- (figurative) Partly hidden or concealed.
- veiled threats
- 2014, J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, page 121:
- When asked about her veiled threat to Professor Jones, that she'd “be sorry,” Ms. Smith said she meant that she would file a formal complaint against Professor Jones for harassment.
- 2026 June 24, “Bill Gates says Epstein sought to blackmail him over extramarital affairs”, in The Guardian[1], sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:
- According to the transcript released by the committee on Tuesday, Gates spoke of “veiled” threats and said Epstein had considered exploiting his own knowledge of Gates’s extramarital affairs to force him to remain in Epstein’s orbit, even as Gates was distancing himself from Epstein.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:hidden
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit](literally) covered by a veil
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Verb
[edit]veiled
- simple past and past participle of veil