Conspicuously
[kəns'pikjuəsli]
Definition
(adv.) in a manner tending to attract attention; 'there have been plenty of general declarations about willingness to meet and talk, but conspicuously no mention of time and place'.
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Examples
- We need only note two of their names, Carnot, who was an honest republican, and Barras, who was conspicuously a rogue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Exceedingly much, on the other hand, is due the energy of his fellow workers, many of whom figure conspicuously in the country’s electrical affairs at present. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Two figured conspicuously in the van of the party. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Science and wisdom were conspicuously absent from the great council of the allies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This puerile feature in a nature which was conspicuously manly had often given rise to comment and conjecture. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The well-known Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission bears the Webb signature most conspicuously. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yes--such as having you so conspicuously on his hands in the small hours. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Every picture of a town of the sixteenth or later centuries shows conspicuously these latter erections for the protection and honour of the town. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By that it was she succeeded where Athens, for example, had conspicuously failed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of these latter, Thomas Alva Edison is one, but in the pages of history he stands conspicuously pre-eminent--a commanding towering figure, even among giants. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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