Subtler
[sʌtlə]
Examples
- What if, for some one of the subtler reasons that would tell with both of them, they should tire of each other, misunderstand or irritate each other? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The pretty dresses of the maids lost their subtler day colours and showed more or less of a misty white. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- To think of that loud independence of Mattie's being only a subtler form of snobbishness! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And all the while, research studies their results, artists express subtler perceptions, critics refine and adapt the general culture of the times. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Sometimes it is some surer and subtler means. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction; but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There is a further point, however, which is subtler and of greater interest. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They said of old the Soul had human shape, But smaller, subtler than the fleshly self, So wandered forth for airing when it pleased. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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