Associations to the word «Subtly»

Wiktionary

SUBTLY, adverb. With subtleness, in a subtle manner. With cleverness rather than brute force.

Dictionary definition

SUBTLY, adverb. In a subtle manner; "late nineteenth-century French opera at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight melancholy".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne