veiledadjective
uk/veɪld/us/veɪld/Veiled words or ways of behaving are not direct or expressed clearly:
a veiled reference/threat/warning
a thinly veiled attack on his abilities as a leader
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Difficult to understand
- (as) clear as mud idiom
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- ambiguous
- arcane
- blurred
- diffuse
- equivocal
- esoteric
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick head idiom
- obscure
- opaque
- oracular
- over your head idiom
- paradox
- puzzler
- puzzling
- verbose
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive