veiled en · ADJ
Meanings
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Covered by a veil.
As usual, Ayesha was veiled like the marble Truth (by the way, I wonder if she originally got the idea of covering up her beauty from that statue?).
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
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(figuratively) Partly hidden or concealed.
According to the transcript released by the committee on Tuesday, Gates spoke of “veiled” threats and said Epstein had considered exploiting his own knowledge of Gates’s extramarital affairs to force him to remain in Epstein’s orbit, even as Gates was distancing himself from Epstein.
2026 June 24, “Bill Gates says Epstein sought to blackmail him over extramarital affairs”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:veiled threats
When asked about her veiled threat to Professor Jones, that she'd “be sorry,” Ms. Smith said she meant that she would file a formal complaint against Professor Jones for harassment.
2014, J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, page 121:
Deriveds
veiled chameleon · thinly-veiled · veiledness · veiledly · veiled plate
Translations (22)
ru завуали́рованный ((literally) covered by a veil) · sv beslöjad ((literally) covered by a veil) · de verschleiert ((literally) covered by a veil) · nl gesluierd ((literally) covered by a veil) · de verschleiert ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · ga ceilte ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · az başıörtülü ((literally) covered by a veil) · hu leplezett ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · uk завуальо́ваний ((literally) covered by a veil) · hu fátyolos ((literally) covered by a veil) · uk завуальо́ваний ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · is dulbúinn ((literally) covered by a veil) · ru завуали́рованный ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · ga faoi chaille ((literally) covered by a veil) · it velato ((literally) covered by a veil) · it velato ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · nl verholen ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · sv förtäckt ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · az örtülü ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · pl zawoalowany ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · is dulbúinn ((figuratively) partly hidden or concealed) · ota محجوب ((literally) covered by a veil)