Sentence examples similar to a veiled offense from inspiring English sources

At times the offense need not even be insulting, as with a veiled allusion in The Jewel of Medina to Prophet Mohammed's having sex with a wife -- a paragraph far less graphic than we can read about Mohammed's actual sex life in the most respected Muslim hadiths.

Or a veiled threat?

Nonetheless, he still made a veiled threat.

Is this a veiled Ukip broadcast?

I lived in a veiled landscape.

Was this a veiled Spector reference?

It was a veiled insult directed at me.

'The powerful sense of a veiled introvert': Frank Ocean.

In Iran, toy shops sell a veiled doll called Sara.

They also came armed with a veiled message of resolve.

A veiled lizard lady-detective and her cockney wife.