Meanings of veiled attempt in English

She laughs at the thinly veiled attempt for a scoop.

Media watchdogs called it a veiled attempt at censorship.

Abortion rights advocates say it is a thinly veiled attempt to ban the procedure in Mississippi.

This veiled attempt to share our laurels with us, courteously as it was worded, put me on my mettle.

However, the thinly- veiled attempt to flip the centre of power in the local coalition government fell flat on its arse.

Few dared to criticise the president's thinly veiled attempt to sell the children's parents a set of half-baked anti-terrorist measures.

The companies in their Monday lawsuit called AB5 a "thinly veiled attempt" to target and harm gig economy businesses.

I queried, not feeling certain but that it was a veiled attempt to secure a little free advertising for the Vanderveer.

The main secondary school principals' group is asking whether the incoming Government's education deal revealed today is a veiled attempt to franchise schools.

Those opposed to the law have said this requirement amounts to a veiled attempt to limit abortions by imposing costly and unnecessary regulations.

Even if you are a cynic and believe the campaign was a thinly veiled attempt to sell more shoes, it was indisputably brave.

A Department of Transport Gazette published in December could be a veiled attempt by government to fine motorists who are boycotting the e-toll system.

Efforts to take no-deal off the table are a "thinly veiled attempt to stop Brexit," the newspaper quoted the Brexiteer as saying.

The 19-page lawsuit accuses Univision of a "thinly veiled attempt" to stifle Trump's freedom of speech in order to boost Democratic frontrunner Hilary Clinton.