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Meanings of low-keyed in English

Restrained in style or quality.

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        Usage of low-keyed in English
        1
        Eve de Montalais laughed the charming, low-keyed laugh of a happily diverted woman.
        Alias the Lone Wolf
        2
        The lank 48-year-old, neatly garbed in a pin-stripe suit, is surprisingly low-keyed in our hour-long conversation.
        100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
        3
        Her voice was slightly monotonous, but low-keyed: as she spoke her hands clasped and unclasped each other.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        4
        It was a godless sound; one of those low-keyed, insidious outrages of Nature which are not meant to be.
        The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
        5
        And though Goldman has become a celebrity in his own right, he still exudes the low-keyed charm of a friendly neighbor talking over a fence.
        100 New Yorkers of the 1970s