unshouting

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ shouting

Adjective[edit]

unshouting (not comparable)

  1. Not shouting; quiet, calm, unassuming, etc.
    • 1968, Louis Sobol, The Longest Street, page 134:
      Frank Sinatra, followed like a Pied Piper by a procession of sober-faced disciples, unshouting and undemonstrative for a change, hurried to St. Patrick's Cathedral to offer his prayers.
    • 1984, Nancy Holmes, The Big Girls, page 26:
      There was a subtlety, an unshouting elegance about her, that was especially attractive in one so young.
    • 2008, ArtSouthAfrica, volume 5, number 2, page 74:
      It makes for a set of quiet images, unshouting in their focus on the thickly laid and deeply entrenched scars of social and political shifts.