Etymologies
- un- + subtle (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Most hieght jokes are fairly unsubtle like, "Do you reach ALL the way to the ground?" kind of unsubtle, and I am sure it wasn't that.”
I go for EEG, Linda becomes Sigourney Weaver, I muse about P.E./Gym class and my NEW PLAN
“Yet at the same time, Mr. O'Connor was blunt in his assessment of the long-term prospects for Afghanistan, using the kind of unsubtle language that has got him into political hot water before.”
No military problem with extending Kandahar mission/MND stands firm
“Also magazine review describes sound as "unsubtle".”
“[Rating is for 11-17 year olds; adults may find the book too didactic and unsubtle for their tastes.] (*****)”
“The film is unsubtle in its disapproval of women who wear the veil: the characters crack jokes about burqinis and Carrie -- in the film's lowest point -- openly mocks a local woman for eating French fries under her veil.”
The Huffington Post: Jayne Huckerby: Sex and the City 2's Wardrobe Malfunction
“Am I just not getting Nadya Suleman's unsubtle brand of humor?”
The Huffington Post: Three Hollywood Halloween Trends That Need to Die
“This, invariably, will be a time of anger and recrimination and also of profoundly unsubtle introspection.”
“Mr. Terzian believes that Roosevelt's "unsubtle slighting" of Churchill at the Tehran and Yalta conferences, and the president's closer attention to Stalin, have been misinterpreted: "Roosevelt made the mistake of suggesting to the British that his personal charm might be persuasive with Stalin when, of course, he believed no such thing.”
“Zucker & Co. will find their unsubtle ways emulated by the people as we take our fight to the well-oiled Internet.”
Richard Laermer: The PR Disaster Called NBC: Death of Corporate Speak
“Third, it's about the friction between a classically formal playwright (Elomire, an unsubtle anagram for Moliere) and Valere, an exponent of dumbed-down comedy, and their rivalry for the patronage of a very rich French Princess -- not much to get excited about there, apparently.”
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Ignorant
Adjectives meaning ignorant
inerudite, nescient, obtuse, unperceptive, insensitive, unknowledgeable, unsubtle, witless, fatuous, ignorant
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