Subtleties
['sʌtltiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Subtlety
Checker: Williams
Examples
- The most crafty of her many subtleties was her feint of seeking to make the children fonder of me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She had further to go, a further, slow exquisite experience to reap, unthinkable subtleties of sensation to know, before she was finished. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Of the last series of subtleties, Gerald was not capable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That joke was lost on the foreigner--guides can not master the subtleties of the American joke. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checker: Williams