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veiled Adjective (of a comment or remark) presented in a disguised form: it was a thinly veiled criticism
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| Turning his veiled face from one group to another, he paid due reverence to the hoary heads, saluted the middle aged with kind dignity as their friend and spiritual guide, greeted the young with mingled authority and love, and laid his hands on the little children's heads to bless them. In his heavy and feverish sleep, a veiled form stood beside him, and laid a cold, soft hand upon him. And she walked on again under the breaking cloud, from which there came now and then the light of a quickly veiled star, for a freezing wind had sprung up since the snowing had ceased. |
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