low-keyed
- s restrained in style or quality
a little masterpiece of low-keyed eloquence
- This is a fairly low-keyed comedy, but a grown-up dropping in on it can appreciate its lack of frenzy, its fundamental good nature, as easily as its core audience will.
- The opening statement for the prosecution by Deputy District Attorney David Fitts was factual and low-keyed.
- Such vast self-assertion would be breathtaking were the phrases not delivered by a softspoken, low-keyed, ever smiling Southerner, who also says that he has been "twice born .