veiled

As usual, Ayesha was veiled like the marble Truth (by the way, I wonder if she originally got the idea of covering up her beauty from that statue?).

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

And into my garden stole, When the night had veild the pole; In the morning glad I see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

1794, William Blake, A Poison Tree

When asked about her veiled threat to Professor Jones, that she'd “be sorry,” Ms. Smith said she meant that she would file a formal complaint against Professor Jones for harassment.

2014, J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, page 121

According to the transcript released by the committee on Tuesday, Gates spoke of “veiled” threats and said Epstein had considered exploiting his own knowledge of Gates’s extramarital affairs to force him to remain in Epstein’s orbit, even as Gates was distancing himself from Epstein.

2026 June 24, “Bill Gates says Epstein sought to blackmail him over extramarital affairs”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN