How to Use unsubtle in a Sentence

unsubtle

adjective

• The mystery is what makes this most unsubtle of elites so electable.
  — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
• Well, that was an unsubtle mirror sneak-up shot.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2025
• Jodphur boots are, in a word, unsubtle.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
• The show’s unsubtle dialogue can feel like a first draft.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
• Their prose tends to be overwrought; their dialogue is clunky and unsubtle.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 12 May 2025
• The scaffolding here is a string of biopic clichés and blips of unsubtle brand management.
  — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 27 Apr. 2026
• Strangers occasionally felt the front edge of his board, an unsubtle hint to clear off.
  — Phil Davison, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• Resentment came out in unsubtle ways.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 June 2026
• Even once you get settled in a new job and apartment, the tension between past and present can pop up in subtle and unsubtle ways.
  — Laura Pappano, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2018
• The ties to the current, fraught moment in the United States are unsubtle.
  — David Faris, theweek, 26 June 2024
• Nikki Fried has been dropping completely unsubtle hints about her plans for months.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 1 June 2021
• Every so often, the dead monarchs and their court sashay out of the past to offer unsubtle commentary.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
• And some human resource managers have come out against Musk’s unsubtle approach.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
• This brash and unsubtle performance is a Halloween costume, not one of the best four pieces of acting in the world this year.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 5 Mar. 2018
• People in my profession couldn’t help but interpret the scene as unsubtle score-settling.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 July 2024
• His efforts to bully the central bank into seeing things his way have been unsubtle—and successful.
  — The Economist, 19 May 2018
• Those who stepped forward were assigned to a dizzying array of new enforcement bodies, with rather unsubtle names.
  — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
• The musical devices allow grief, and plenty of other emotions, to play out in bold, unsubtle ways.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
• But those engaging bits are set amid a sea of melodrama and unsubtle Cold War tropes that can be hard to cringe your way through.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• And the detailing from Mansory is as unsubtle as the wordplay.
  — New Atlas, 12 Mar. 2025
• By many accounts, including his own unsubtle quips with the music press, Boursinos was hitting the gear hard.
  — Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
• Ryan did not name Brand during her special, but dropped several unsubtle clues about his identity.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2025
• Those unsubtle eye rolls by the editors in our hugely popular YouTube test kitchen videos?
  — Adam Rapoport, Bon Appétit, 16 July 2019
• For everyone who lives in our state and is fatigued by our unsubtle support for these tired symbols of the division that still plagues our nation.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 4 June 2020
• Her genuine thrill was an unsubtle reminder that Fashion Week really should be fun.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2018
• Swift is known for littering her looks with Easter eggs for fans, but this look is an unsubtle show of support for Kelce, no doubt about it.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2025
• In the wake of Good’s killing, many of us feel the fear that no one is safe, an increasingly unsubtle pressure to self-censure dissent.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• Inside, there’s a counter, three small tables and a portrait of Pierce hanging on distinctly unsubtle red- and green-tiled walls.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 20 Nov. 2019
• There are repeating patterns, questions that get posed again and again, themes that become clearer and more unsubtle the more often they are rehearsed.
  — Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
• The heart as a whole is a large, unsubtle organ, and those vessels feeding it that aren't the circumference of a D battery are still as fat as thumbs.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019