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Unobtrusive (adj) means Quiet and modest, so as not to attract attention.

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Quiet and modest, so as not to attract attention.

"This unobtrusive device helps millions of Americans sleep and concentrate by hushing the world around them." — Mack Hagood, How a Bad Night’s Sleep Birthed the Sound Conditioner (2019)

"Behind an unobtrusive iron door in Dalston decorated with an ever-changing graffiti skin, lies a staircase leading down to a concrete bunker dating from the second world war." — Jen Wong, Exploring the mind in a bunker (2014)

"The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists whose work harnessed the power of molecular interaction and introduced new, unobtrusive ways of studying the natural world." — Cora Engelbrecht, Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to 3 scientists for work ‘snapping molecules together’ (2022)

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