Restrained in style or quality.
1 Eve de Montalais laughed the charming, low - keyed laugh of a happily diverted woman.
2 The lank 48-year-old, neatly garbed in a pin-stripe suit, is surprisingly low - keyed in our hour-long conversation.
3 Her voice was slightly monotonous, but low - keyed : as she spoke her hands clasped and unclasped each other.
4 It was a godless sound; one of those low - keyed , insidious outrages of Nature which are not meant to be.
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.
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