what does "thinly veiled attempt to hide his own agenda" mean?

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what does "thinly veiled attempt to hide his own agenda" mean?

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It means he had an agenda -- something he wanted to happen or something he wanted to see for his own gain or own reasons -- and he tried, but not too well, to disguise his agenda. Thinly veiled means he didn't hide his true intentions very well, that it was not hard to see the true motivation -- his agenda -- for his words or actions. Let's say my son wants me out of the house so he can get into some trouble with a friend, but he says "Dad, why don't you and MOm go see a movie or something? here's $10." Now that's pretty thinly-veiled because I can guess what he's up to.

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Thinly Veiled

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Contrary to popular belief this usage is not lazy or indecent nor is it as recent as many of you seem to think. At least as far back as the time of the American Revolution pls or plz was used in place of please in correspondence , again after the introduction of the telegraph, and most recently with the advent of text messaging, and all for the same reason, cost. During the early days of our country both paper and ink were expensive, so there were accepted methods of abbreviation to cram as much information into a letter as possible pls (or plz) was one example of this. When sending telegrams you were charged by the word (as in typing every 5 characters not actual words) so once again pls was used (among many other shortcuts u for you and so on) to make the sending of a message as cost effective as possible. As for text messaging, when first introduced, you may recall, we were charged per message we sent, so cutting letters out of messages meant a single text could be sent instead of two. It became a habit that carried over onto the internet, even though the need for the abbreviation no long exists,,,,to be fair though I am fairly sure you type OK or okay instead of Orl Korrekt which is the widely accepted original phrase the abbreviation came from, so can you really cast stones?

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what does "thinly veiled attempt to hide his own agenda" mean?
what does "thinly veiled attempt to hide his own agenda" mean?

Answer 6

thinly vieled: not well hidden
not well hidden attempt to hide his own agenda
that means he didn't try hard to resist sharing his schedule for the day

Answer 7

With literature, every sentence can have multiple interpretations. However, this one is most likely referring to a character that has some devious plan/ scheme set up, and is not doing a good job hiding his intentions.

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Unfortunately, it means please. I started hating chat abbreviations since the first time I saw them. Is it too hard to type complete words? I mean, it only takes SECONDS to type the complete word, PLEASE people, stop being so damn lazy. I understand acronyms, but don't abbreviate every single freakin' word! So it's either laziness, retardedness, or maybe they just think it's cool. Personally, I hate it. I usually help anyway, but that's just because I like to help... don't get me wrong, that crap still annoys me.

Answer 9

to me it means a transparent cover up to conceal the true meaning of one's actions ---like a flimsy lie that everyone can see through to cover his butt

Answer 10

It means that "You could see right through him or it."