"veiled allusion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means indirect or subtle references to something, and it can be used whenever the speaker or writer wishes to refer to something without being too direct or explicit about it. For example, "The author's remarks hinted at a veiled allusion to an ancient conflict."
Milosz's poetry touches on the war years in a guarded, reticent voice of glancing memory and veiled allusion.
The fourth is Marshall's thinly veiled allusion to the Soviet Union and to Communism: anyone who opposed this new policy would get short shrift.
He made a lacerating, if veiled, allusion to the monitor, Golos, which operates on grants from the United States and Europe.
Befitting a medical show, several executives said that would come only through "the biological solution," a thinly veiled allusion to the aging Mr. Castro.
In a thinly veiled allusion to Mr. Kumar's ascension after more than a decade as the protégé of Charles B. Wang, a co-founder of the company, Mr. Ranieri said, "Four years ago, they simply changed the guy who said he was C.E.O".
His statement, with its thinly veiled allusion to past German passivity before the rise of rightist violence, reflected growing concern in the government over an abrupt increase in such attacks in a country that has more than seven million foreigners but remains uneasy with the idea that it is a "land of immigration".
Ashbery is an astounding reader: what was confounding seems funny, veiled allusions become apparent, rhythms are revealed and images crystallize.
Schumann's early music and much of the later is full of enigmas, musical quotations (usually in subtle disguises), and veiled allusions.
Like the suite, it is etched in insistent, driven rhythms and brash harmonies, and like "Hispania," it makes veiled allusions to folk materials (Romanian, in Radulescu's case).
In an excellent introduction to the Edinburgh University Press edition of the novella, Richard Dury ranges over a variety of possible readings, noting that of several "socially condemned activities" that Hyde is associated with, "veiled allusions to homosexuality are particularly frequent".
Through speeches, interviews and publications, another prosecutor argued, Ms. Ingabire claimed that "one ethnic group is beyond or above the other ethnic group," and that power was held by a small group of people who exploit others, thinly veiled allusions to ethnic Tutsis and Hutus.
