inobtrusive

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More often, though, the camera’s positioning, movement and focus are inobtrusive.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Paar kept saying: "I don't know what to do," and Rooney claimed: "I'm not trying to be inobtrusive."

From Time Magazine Archive

Note the inobtrusive and yet fully adequate mode of introducing the main character, 'young Hamlet,' upon whom is transferred all the interest excited for the acts and concerns of the king his father.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Then Grandcourt's behavior as a lover had hardly at all passed the limit of an amorous homage which was inobtrusive as a wafted odor of roses, and spent all its effects in a gratified vanity.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

Old girls pointed her out to one another in a fashion that was meant to209 be inobtrusive but that would have flattered the vanity of any other freshman.

From Betty Wales Senior by Warde, Margaret