adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a veiled threat (= one that is not made directly )
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The emails contained thinly veiled threats of harm.
be shrouded/veiled in mystery (= be unable to be explained )
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The origins of this tradition remain shrouded in mystery.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
thinly
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Mrs Thatcher's public speeches contained thinly veiled warning messages to colleagues who doubted the strategy.
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There is always a danger that it becomes a thinly veiled therapeutic exercise.
■ NOUN
threat
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Was this a veiled threat to Richard?
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A feral world of backbiting malice, veiled threats , liars and blackmailers.
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They backed up these demands with scarcely veiled threats .
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They warned him with veiled threats against mentioning anything that he had witnessed the previous night.
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His favourite line of attack was to start talking about finding useful employment for Vincent, and to issue veiled threats .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be veiled in mystery/secrecy etc
thinly disguised/veiled
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Almost all his climbs have a certain something: a thinly disguised air of intimidation often allied to a raw brutality.
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Both, however, were under external threat from barbarians more or less thinly disguised.
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Dole passed up two thinly veiled invitations by moderator Jim Lehrer to address so-called character issues.
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Hardly compatible with discretion, that I should ride to the Palace in so thinly disguised a vehicle.
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I should hate to give the impression that my love for you is but thinly disguised lust.
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Mostly they turned out to be thinly disguised candidate ads, a violation of the spirit of the law at best.
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Mrs Thatcher's public speeches contained thinly veiled warning messages to colleagues who doubted the strategy.
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She was only thinly veiled, and Rostov could see that although she was beautiful, she was old.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her comments were nothing more than a veiled criticism of my work.
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His attempt to get us to help him is just a veiled form of blackmail.
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The opposition leader has made thinly veiled threats of violence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He suddenly remembered her carefully veiled amusement when he had mentioned the tinkers.
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I hate to disappoint anyone but that wasn't the case - although the veiled hints caused us plenty of amusement.
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Perfectly aware of the veiled disapproval, his kindlier feelings abated, to be replaced by a resurgence of ill humour.
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The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns.
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Two veiled female figures leaned in exaggerated mourning over an urn in the Grecian taste of the 1810s.
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Was this a veiled threat to Richard?