Meaning of soft-spoken | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a pleasant, gentle, mild manner of speech; speaking gently or quietly.

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Examples

“He was a soft-spoken fellow who loved children and dogs.”

“My uncle was a lovely man, and soft-spoken with his delightful Manx accent.”

“[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look⟳ or action; […]”

“With no great disparity between them in point⟳ of years, they were, in every other respect⟳, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present⟳ mood, forbidding both in look⟳ and speech.”

“In fact, this educator, lawyer, editor, composer, author, poet, and diplomat [James Weldon Johnson] would become⟳ a sturdy fulcrum for black America's transition in 1916 from the softspoken conformity and accommodation of the Booker T. Washington era to a vigorous militant idealism that targeted no less than full equality.”

“We were driving to the Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue⟳ Centre, south of Bitung, to meet⟳ with Harry Hilser, program⟳ manager for the nonprofit Selamatkan Yaki—which works to save⟳ Sulawesi's crested black macaques—and the rescue⟳ center's manager, Simon Purser, a soft-spoken Brit who seems to carry⟳ the weight of the world on his slim frame.”

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