low-keyed

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Dershowitz said Cipollone “brings great judgment and lawyerly skills to the defense of President Trump. He’s very calibrated, very low-keyed and has excellent judgment. It’s exactly what’s needed.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2020

Atmosphere A low-ceilinged and low-keyed Brooklyn tavern with few overtly Mexican gestures apart from the culinary mural on the wall.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2018

Nevertheless, Harriott’s tone was more low-keyed than the one he’d adopted before the Booker T. game.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2017

Or maybe it will be Pharrell Williams, who low-keyed his way to scoring a much-coveted singer Monday, a vocalist Levine called “the greatest singer in the show’s history and the most beautiful.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2015

Affable, low-keyed, and very small of stature, Jacob displays a wry wit while telling how he began his career as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator before turning to full-time writing in 1956.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max