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as in mild
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as in inconspicuous
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Recent Examples of unemphatic
The former is quietly involving: unhurried, unemphatic, observant.
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Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Nov. 2021
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
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Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
6 July 2018
This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity.
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Patrick Friel,
Chicago Reader,
17 Apr. 2018
This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
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Lili Anolik,
Vanities,
14 Dec. 2017
Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Nov. 2021
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
6 July 2018
This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity.
—
Patrick Friel,
Chicago Reader,
17 Apr. 2018
This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
—
Lili Anolik,
Vanities,
14 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unemphatic
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Exotic animals in Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson said the mild climate and rugged terrain of the Texas Hill Country seems to serve as a good stand-in for most of the animals' native African environments, and is no stranger to tracking missing animals, especially after floods.
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Luckily for the man, the effects were relatively mild.
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Test vinegar for colorfastness in an inconspicuous area on colored sheets before using it to freshen them.
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Maybe the score is meant to be inconspicuous so that the tension of the final service takes center stage.
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Rubio met with Gulf Arab leaders in Bahrain on Thursday in an effort to assuage their concerns over certain terms of the MOU, including the ambiguous language around the management of the Strait of Hormuz.
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With one, everything the best-performing agent learns is written into a layer for the next—how to handle a difficult customer, which exception patterns resolved cleanly, what an ambiguous edge case meant for the business.
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It’s designed to sit under your clothing to be reasonably unobtrusive, save for two elements.
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David might be the most influential yet unobtrusive trailblazer the Canadian team has ever had.
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People who knew Zhang described him to police as a nonassertive man who avoided conflict and typically acquiesced to his wife.
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Those who saw an assertive ad chose to allocate $7 of the gift card to the brand on average, compared with $14 for those who saw a nonassertive ad.
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Maybe there was a gift card and restaurant visit too — an altogether enjoyable, but unremarkable celebration.
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When an audience member posed a hypothetical choice between a flawed but distinctive film and a polished but unremarkable one, Leung said either would do, arguing that cinema’s goal was sincerity, in performance or in a director’s expression, rather than polish.
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When that happens, people become more guarded, less open and less willing to engage.
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Our spirits remain guarded, but high, for this one; the Venice Film Festival crowd seemed to eat it up.
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The clothes were unshowy but versatile, appropriate for the office but casual enough for weekend wear.
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Ruth is an extraordinary heroine, rock-solid strong in a completely unshowy, sincere, vulnerable way.
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“Unemphatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemphatic. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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