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SUBTLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a subtle manner

Example:

late nineteenth-century French opera at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight melancholy

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Adverbs

Pertainym:

subtle (difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze)

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 Context examples: 

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)