Meaning of underspoken | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterized by understatement; understated.

Examples

“The Anglo-Saxon Charles Darwin, underspoken and gentlemanly, impersonal and asexual and blankly observant in his writings, was a hero in teeming, passionate, polyglot Guayaquil because he was the inspiration for a tourist boom.”

“But trust him, I don't think I ever did. Even in his new, earnest, underspoken self.”

“In a very underspoken sense one may view the achievements of Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe - the giants on whose shoulders Newton stood — and Newton as being the unfolding and solution of this very problem.”

“"We are simply doing our service for Gilead," she said in her underspoken robot Aunt's way, and the Angel said, "Praise be."”

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