Sentence examples for thinly concealed from inspiring English sources

Rights advocates criticized the prosecution of Mr. Chen's nephew, saying it was rife with irregularities and little more than a thinly concealed act of revenge.

The young women with ambiguous smiles whose nudity is thinly concealed, or not, occasionally wear hats with expensive trimmings provocatively tilted.

As with much of Trump's public behavior, his birtherist trial balloon was a combination of aimless bluster, raw political instinct, ingenious (albeit amoral) forethought, and thinly concealed racism.

(And if the surfer isn't taking two seconds to peruse it, the thinly concealed attack won't meet its target, turning the experience into a wash).Aren't Democrats doing the same thing?

The battle has been over Mr Menem's efforts to rally his party behind his thinly concealed quest to overcome a constitutional ban on his running next year for a third consecutive term at the top.

In two days of interviews with the North Koreans, a thinly concealed disgust over inequality that has risen in recent years — and a realization that the national credo of juche, or self-reliance, was a carefully constructed lie — was striking.

Critics of France's secularist laws in schools say they often thinly conceal a widespread bias against Muslims and immigrants in French society.

No doubt European bafflement at American religiosity has overtones of condescension toward American cultural "backwardness," a condescension that often thinly conceals envy and resentment.

Like Don Draper on a drug-fueled weekend in Vegas or Tony Soprano on an average afternoon at the Bada Bing, Baratheon has a gruffness that only thinly conceals his despair, and his dissatisfaction and longing are most palpable when he's gamely mimicking the indulgences of his glory days.

Clearly, we are dealing with a very thinly encoded text, concealing a Gospel that would otherwise have been destined for the bonfire.

Her loyalty is all the more remarkable because of her thinly-concealed hurt that she's not recognised as a former Labour leader having carried out the role between John Smith's death and Tony Blair's election.