Hypertext Webster Gateway: "subtly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Subtly \Sub"tly\, adv.
In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.
Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise.
--Milton.
2. Nicely; delicately.
In the nice bee what sense so subtly true. --Pope.
Subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but
evading the analysis of my mind. --Hawthorne.
3. Deceitfully; delusively. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
subtly
adv : in a subtle manner; "late nineteenth-century French opera at
its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight
melancholy"
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