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Understated   /ˈəndərstˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Understated

adjective
1.
Exhibiting restrained good taste.  Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretentious.





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"Understated" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself a smile of the pleasure we Americans all feel at having a thing understated in that way. His wife asked timidly, "Do we have to engage our ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... Had I already said the mass that morning? Had I my robes in the sac I had left at the Mairie? Was the red book they had seen in my hands (Baedeker's Schweiz) a Breviary? They branched off to matters of doctrine, and discussed them warmly; but some things they so accommodatingly understated, and others they stated so fairly, that I was able to tell them ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne


Words linked to "Understated" :   unostentatious, tasteful, unpretentious


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