Overt is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• open to view
• done or shown openly; plainly apparent
• open, not hidden
• Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
• Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason.
• open and observable; not secret or hidden

Words related to OVERT

overtly13 overtness12

How to use OVERT in a sentence

• In the filaments brushed across the face of my understanding I could discover none so strong as to support an overt act on my part.
• It was as though an overt sign that my opponents were men and not ghosts, and that with them I had, at least, the chance of a man, though but one against many.
• War with Germany was then believed to be only a matter of hours, awaiting the first German overt act.
• A whispered communication from Lady Diantha did nothing to abate her overt approbation.
• In an information society, this open, overt, obvious activity has proven to be a profound advantage.
• Yet these letters, so far as they related to overt acts witnessed, were lucid and should have been convincing.
• Neither the North Carolinians, nor any one else, knew that there was better ground for the charge of treason against Sevier than had appeared in his overt actions.
• Women would have loved him, and would have told him so in the overt and fervid manner usual in affairs of the heart in the shadowy depths of the forest of the Gold Coast.
• He trusted me, yet was afraid of overt signs of trust.
• Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
• By constant interference, overt and secret, not always stopping short of violence, French influence and French ideas were propagated among the weaker adjoining states.
• The British during the same days were putting bomb-vessels in place, a perfectly overt act.
• But if I decided overt action unwise at this moment, I decidedly went into action the next.
• The Germans gave him plainly to understand that he would be held responsible for any overt act on the part of the populace against the Germans.
• This particularly irritated the Belgians, but they wisely abstained from any overt manifestation or any unpleasant feature of behavior.
• And as to the overt acts, were not the bundle of letters of information in Mr.
• No overt act of hostility appears to have been committed by the Johannesburg people since the overthrow of Jameson.
• The Committee earnestly desire that the inhabitants should refrain from taking any action which can be construed as an overt act of hostility against the Government.
• The proprietor cannot turn them out unless they are notorious, until they commit some overt act, for fear of getting himself into trouble.
• Never harbor such ideas for an instant, for they will surely lead to the overt act.
• They even comprehended verbal offences, nay, intentions, though they had never appeared in any overt act against the state.
• This sudden absence of overt hostility is disquieting.
• They committed both open and overt acts against discipline, and found in their arrest and imprisonment renewed grievances, additional oppression, tyranny.
• The quarrel was now over, for they had conversed in quite sincere tones of friendliness, but she had desired and expected an overt, tangible proof and symbol of peace.
• So far Virginia had given no overt sign of sympathy with the revolution.
• As a last resource, of course such a step would be justifiable, but not until at least overt outrages have been attempted.
• This was an overt breach of their treaty engagements and a declaration of war with Germany.
• I had but to say a word, to give but a sign and bring about an overt rebellion.
• She declared the action of the German Diet to be not only a menace, but an act of overt hostilities.
• No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
• The overt act was so notorious, that it had not been considered necessary to summon many, and the few needed were soon hunted up.

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