low-keyed
Example Sentences
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“I feel like it’s a whole team, and this couldn’t be done without all the other players,” said Wang, who in typical fashion low-keyed his contributions.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
The intellectuals are logical, emotionally low-keyed, fond of debate, creative.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2021
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
From the bunk house, when he passed, came the murmur of low-keyed voices.
From Rim o' the World by Anton Otto Fischer
