veiled threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofveiledandthreat
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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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(Definition ofveiledandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is theveiledthreat.
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The letter contained aveiledthreat.
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That is not aveiledthreat.
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I do not believe that is aveiledthreat.
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That sounds to me very much like aveiledthreat.
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There was a sort ofveiledthreatconcerning them.
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I have perceived a tacit threat, aveiledthreatin some of those questionings.
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This reference made many of us think very seriously about what thisveiledthreatcontained.
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That, in the light of yesterday's events, is a thinlyveiledthreat.
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Theveiledthreatof a fine, which is to take away something the sinner already has, is not credible and will not work in such an environment.
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I found the contents of this letter disturbing in that they contained at least one thinlyveiledthreat.
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The first is theveiledthreatthat, if it does not go through, the defence budget will suffer directly.
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There is occasionally aveiledthreatthat 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 ofveiledthreatof 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 ofveiledthreatthat 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 theveiledthreatof an armed neutrality.
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Linked with that was the very thinlyveiledthreatof 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 aveiledthreaton his life.
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