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veiled

 (vāld)
adj.
1. Covered with a veil: the veiled head of a bride.
2. Concealed or disguised as if with a veil: "slur-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices" (Edith Wharton).
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veiled

(veɪld)
adj
1. disguised: a veiled insult.
2. (of sound, tone, the voice, etc) not distinct; muffled
veiledly adv
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veiled

(veɪld)

adj.
1. having or wearing a veil.
2. not openly or directly revealed or expressed: a veiled threat.
[1585–95]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.veiled - having or as if having a veil or concealing cover; "a veiled dancer"; "a veiled hat"; "veiled threats"; "veiled insults"
unveiled - revealed; especially by having a veil removed; "a new generation of unveiled women in Iran"; "applauding the unveiled statue of Winston Churchill"
2.veiled - muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or foggy"
indistinct - not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do"
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veiled

adjective disguised, implied, hinted at, covert, masked, concealed, suppressed He made a veiled threat to withdraw his support if we continued.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Translations
مُحَجَّبمُقَنَّع
zahalenýzahalený závojem
elfátyolozottleplezett
dulinnsem er hulinn blæju
zahalenýzahalený závojom
açıkça ifade edilmeyenduvaklıpeçeli

veiled

[veɪld] ADJ [threat, hint, criticism, insult] → velado; [reference] → encubierto
thinly-veiled dislikeantipatía f apenas disimulada
with veiled ironycon velada ironía
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

veiled

[ˈveɪld] adj
[woman, girl] → voilé(e)
[reference, criticism, threat] → voilé(e)
thinly veiled → à peine voilé(e)
a thinly veiled criticism → une critique à peine voilée
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

veiled

adj
reference, attack, criticism, threat, warningversteckt
(= covered) woman, faceverschleiert; to be veiled in blackschwarz verschleiert sein
(liter, = obscured) → verborgen; mountainsumhüllt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

veiled

[veɪld] adj (also) (fig) → velato/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

veil

(veil) noun
a piece of thin cloth worn over the face or head to hide, cover, or protect it. Some women wear veils for religious reasons, to prevent strangers from seeing their faces; a veil of mist over the mountains; a veil of secrecy.
verb
to cover with a veil.
veiled adjective
1. wearing, or covered by, a veil. a veiled lady; The bride was veiled.
2. (only slightly) disguised. a veiled threat.
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It was so white-bread, so veiledly anti-Semitic in its past, so airheaded, the kind of party whose idea of zesty ideological ferment was Rose Nylund and June Cleaver bringing their famous potato salads to the country club picnic.
And the piece turns out to be a delight, the absurd story-line of Keats' poem inspiring equally exotic - often veiledly erotic - material from the composer.