sotto voce
Speech parts
1. sotto voce - Noun
2. sotto voce - Adjective
3. sotto voce - Adverb
Meaning
With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.
Spoken low or in an undertone.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
piano
aside
quietly
gently
weakly
softly
faintly
whisper
whispering
inwardly
murmuring
bated
noiselessly
privately
amoroso
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he uttered a curse sotto voce
It’s back with a vengeance, lurking in the subtext and sotto voce of virtually every headline and utterance from the above precincts with respect to the Covid-19.
As in, sotto voce: “I’ve just had my whelks removed.”