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subtle

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“There was a subtle shift in his tone.”

Not obvious; delicate and hard to notice.

🇦🇲 Armenian:նուրբ

🇷🇺 Russian:тонкий

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There was a subtle shift in his tone.

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insidious delicate pernicious perceptive elusive harmful impalpable

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