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/ˌʌn.əbˈtɹuː.sɪv.li/ · adverb
In an unobtrusive manner; in a manner that is not noticeable or blatant..
He felt not the slightest doubt in his mind that this was the girl who had written him, and, having given an order to the waiter, he started to study her face as unobtrusively as possible.
Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]
Most of the old fishermen's cottages have been unobtrusively modernised, the harbour is busy with summer yachts, and the sands are superb.
Use unobtrusively when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unobtrusively means In an unobtrusive manner; in a manner that is not noticeable or blatant..
Common synonyms include inconspicuously, subtly.
Possible antonyms include obtrusively.
He felt not the slightest doubt in his mind that this was the girl who had written him, and, having given an order to the waiter, he started to study her face as unobtrusively as possible.
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