英和和英

形容詞

veiled

1. Covered by a veil.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     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?).

   • 2018, Loathe, “White Hot”, in This Is as One (EP) (alternative metal, metalcore), England:

     I'm under surface
     Towers veiled in silk
     I guess I'm not welcome
     In this house they built

2. (figurative) Partly hidden or concealed.

   veiled threats

   • 1794, William Blake, A Poison Tree:
     And into my garden stole,
     When the night had veild the pole;
     In the morning glad I see;
     My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
   • 2014, J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, page 121:

     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.

   • 2026 June 24, “Bill Gates says Epstein sought to blackmail him over extramarital affairs”, in The Guardian‎, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:

     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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:hidden

派生語

動詞

veiled

1. simple past and past participle of veil

アナグラム

• levied