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veiled

[ veyld ]

adjective

  1. having a veil:

    a veiled hat.

  2. covered or concealed by, or as if by, a veil:

    a veiled woman.

  3. not openly or directly expressed; masked; disguised; hidden; obscure:

    a veiled threat.

  4. lacking clarity or distinctness:

    veiled sounds; a veiled image.



veiled

/ veɪld; ˈveɪlɪdlɪ /

adjective

  1. disguised

    a veiled insult

  2. (of sound, tone, the voice, etc) not distinct; muffled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • veiledly, adverb
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Other Word Forms

  • 𾱱·· [vey-lid-lee], adverb
  • 󲹱-𾱱 adjective
  • ɱ-𾱱 adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of veiled1

First recorded in 1585–95; veil + -ed 3
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Piastri suggested to the team that he felt he had the pace to beat Verstappen - a thinly veiled request to be let past.

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Instead, they suggest, “Trump tends to heavily rely upon thinly veiled speech codes known as ’dog whistles’ to implicitly refer to them.

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Among Vernon's deceptions, she created a fake Facebook account and used it to send messages to the man apparently from her ex-partner – messages that were unpleasant about her and contained veiled threats.

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Carti brought to Rolling Loud was a volatile proposition — some of the most truly transgressive music to ever top streaming and Billboard charts, aesthetically uncompromising and veiled with real menace.

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She had slapped a bumper sticker on her old vehicle that read "Bought This Car Before We Knew" in a veiled reference to Musk, but she felt that wasn't enough.

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