markedness
Example Sentences
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When Aletta waxed eloquent over her absent lover, Adrian, hitherto kindly and considerately responsive, now preserved silence; indeed he lapsed into silence with just sufficient markedness as to move her to notice it.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
McComas looked out at him with no particular expression and indeed with no markedness of attention.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
Though the entire hotel was watching her Hannah was actually unconscious of Clint Darrow's attentions, or their markedness, until her son-in-law Ed teased her about him one day.
From Gigolo by Edna Ferber
