Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with a veil: the veiled head of a bride.
- adj. Concealed or disguised as if with a veil: "slur-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices” ( Edith Wharton).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. muted or unclear
- adj. having or as if having a veil or concealing cover
Examples
“(Not just in veiled terms, either -- with a Japanese and an American war vet thrown into one of his twilit scenarios.)”
“Gray also managed to work in veiled swipes at Jason Chaffetz and Ron Moten.”
“Washington's letters to Le Mayeur were written in veiled language, never directly mentioning dental work or dentures, probably because of his embarrassment over the previously intercepted letter.”
“One part of Chinese culture seldom discussed, even closely veiled is its sexual customs.”
“Implying terrorist ties to Obama, albeit very veiled, is still a bit of a smear tactic.”
“His ten lane Highway running from Canada to Mexico, his plan to combine Mexico and Canada with the United States was all done in the shadows veiled from the American public and the Honest Lawmakers, he managed to commit treason by giving our Nuclear technology to India.”
Think Progress » Paper Retracts Report that Murtha Called U.S. the Greatest Threat to World Peace
“A train is passing on a viaduct; a man carrying a large packagewith an expression of veiled menaceseems to be approaching the photographer.”
““If I understand correctly, you are making what is known as a veiled reference in a sexual context.””
“But we failed to get her identified as the veiled woman who had visited the house in Grosvenor Gardens.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘veiled’.
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Introverted
Quiet, shy, Introverted, reserved, isolated, mysterious
abashed, alienated, alone, anonymous, antisocial, ascetic, asocial, austere, autonomous, awkward, bashful, clannish and 91 more...
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In our own Nighttime
Words that appropriately fit my dreaming...
or when I'm not in a state of "wakefulness."wake, perversity, obscurity, opaque, uneven, absence, recall, recoil, maimeries, embittered, yashmak, veiled and 2 more...
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Hiding in plain sight
anticryptic, camouflage, chameleon, xenomorphic, obfusc, stegnographic, stealth, dissemble, dissimulate, mask, masquerade, screen and 27 more...
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Lillyjames's Words
uncategorized words that I enjoy
replete, unabashed, dauntless, ubiquitous, fanged, blush, flush, murmur, mercurial, dishevelled, decrepit, raven and 146 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Wordwild's Delights
Delightful words to read and use
plangent, ribald, titubant, sidereal, pelagic, improvident, dolorous, parlous, baleful, precatory, pied, mephitic and 247 more...
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Scriptie: The Return of the King
i can't carry it ..., at the end of all..., it's done, reach, eagles, veil, grass, water, cream, strawberries, barley, summer and 200 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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SAT TEST 8 WORDS
waning, encroaching, modicum, discrepancy, surfeit, phlegmatic, conciliatory, vigilant, penurious, jaded, miffed, veiled and 24 more...
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Not the Clearest of Intentions
You ever try to read someone who can't be read? What is he thinking? What is he going to do? Whose side is he really on?
hidden agenda, doublespeak, backstabbing, treasonous, covert, mysterious, questionable, shady, flattering, sycophant, brownnose, secretive and 78 more...
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Odd Words
Miscellaneous words that deserve some kind of recognition.
airy, conjunctive, indicative, disjunctive, subjunctive, seraph, seraphim, serif, sans, theta, sigma, delta and 61 more...
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six
rutsch mir den Bu..., nique ta mere, Ca me fait chier, fahr zur hölle, lavender, lilac, cassiopeia, anthracite, svartálfar, Saigon, Du kannst mich ma..., toska and 36 more...
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Just Plain Beautiful
Words that are just pretty. I don't know whether it's because of what they mean that I find them pretty, or because of how they sound, or both. But these are my lovely words.
penumbra, crimson, afterglow, topaz, lyre, velvet, ivory, mist, vespertine, oubliette, aria, crystalline and 31 more...
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