soft-spoken

ADJECTIVE
  1. having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh
    she was always soft-spoken
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How To Use soft-spoken In A Sentence

  • While pictures often portray the man sneering down his nose at the camera, in person he is strikingly soft-spoken, almost courtly.
  • He has created a soft-spoken and gentle Barrie who is the boy who never grew up, yet never seems grotesque.
  • The soft-spoken musician said he was also practising hard with his musician friends in Kabwe just to keep in shape musically.
  • Gambians tend to be soft-spoken and gentle in demeanor, seeking to avoid noisy conflicts and striving toward quiet settlement of disputes.
  • Although basically a noble failure from the sound of it, good things have come of the attempt—for example, "The Colbert Report," where the gentle, soft-spoken Brit rose hyperactively to the occasion. Perfecting The Toaster
  • Here was no blue-jacketed, weather-beaten son of the sea, but a soft-spoken gentleman, for all the world the type of successful business man one meets in all the clubs. CHAPTER I
  • Those who met him for the first time were surprised to find a charming, soft-spoken man with a ready smile and a courteous manner. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is a shy soft-spoken person.
  • This bearded and soft-spoken environmentalist poured out his heart, urging human beings to stop considering themselves the sole master of the earth, and instead start viewing themselves as just a small part of the whole beautiful order of nature.
  • When they died in late 2007 and 2008, Buckles became the last so-called doughboy - and a soft-spoken celebrity. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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