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Soft-spoken   /sɑft-spˈoʊkən/   Listen
Soft-spoken

adjective
1.
Having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh.






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"Soft-spoken" Quotes from Famous Books



... ye have a lot o' knowledge, but it's the little FINE things we Irish have got to learn. An' they make life seem so much bigger an' grander by bein' considerate an' civil an' soft-spoken to each other. We've let the brutality of all the years that have gone before eat into us, and we have thrown off all the charm and formality of life, and in their place adopted a rough and crude manner to each other that does not come really from our ...
— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners

... bookseller, as per order; for they contained, in spirit-stirring print, notices of 'Clements on Defence.' Unluckily for his present peace of mind, poor fellow, the periodicals in question were none of the humaner sort; no kindly encouraging 'Literary Register,' no soft-spoken 'Courtier,' no patient 'Investigator,' no generously-indulgent 'Critical Gazette:' these more amiable journals would be slower in the field—some six weeks hence, perhaps, creeping on with philanthropic sloth: but fiercer prints, which dart hebdomadal wrath at every trembling ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper



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