Undertones
[ʌndə,təʊnz]
Examples
- It's wonderful how close poor Peter was, she said, in the same undertones. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They were so often diverting themselves in undertones, those three men whom God had mocked with the most tremendous opportunity in history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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