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词汇 example_english_veiled-threat
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veiled threat

collocation in English

meanings of veiledand threat


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veiled
adjective
uk /veɪld/ us /veɪld/
Veiled words or ways of behaving are not direct or ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk /θret/ us /θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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Examples of veiled threat


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There is the veiledthreat.
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The letter contained a veiledthreat.
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That is not a veiledthreat.
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I do not believe that is a veiledthreat.
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That sounds to me very much like a veiledthreat.
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There was a sort of veiledthreat concerning them.
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I have perceived a tacit threat, a veiledthreat in some of those questionings.
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This reference made many of us think very seriously about what this veiledthreat contained.
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That, in the light of yesterday's events, is a thinly veiledthreat.
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The veiledthreat of a fine, which is to take away something the sinner already has, is not credible and will not work in such an environment.
I found the contents of this letter disturbing in that they contained at least one thinly veiledthreat.
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The first is the veiledthreat that, if it does not go through, the defence budget will suffer directly.
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There is occasionally a veiledthreat that once we have a new line we may not need all the stations on the other lines.
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There was a sort of veiledthreat of what might happen three years from now if those amalgamations do not materialise.
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It was officially sanctioned, and that is the type of veiledthreat that has been used by people to whom we are giving these excessive powers.
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However, he still hoped to gain the coveted prize by diplomacy, backed by the veiledthreat of an armed neutrality.
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Linked with that was the very thinly veiledthreat of industrial strife, a threat which is an entirely new feature in our political life in its link with economic policy.
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She tells him she has not called a hospital or told anybody about him, and makes a veiledthreat on his life.
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