Definition of Overt

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Definition of Overt
	Overt Open to view; public; apparent; manifest. Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason. Related Definitions: Act, An, Apparent, As, Covert, Manifest, Not, Of, Open, Overt, Public, To, Treason, View

Overt Quotations

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Ralph Ellison

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Charles de Montesquieu

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
Harold Bloom

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
Ed Markey

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
Ralph Fiennes

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.
Godfrey Reggio

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.
Charles Vest

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Arundhati Roy

In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
Judd Rose

Overt Translations

overt in German is offenkundig
overt in Spanish is evidente

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