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underspeak (三人称単数 現在形 underspeaks, 現在分詞 underspeaking, 過去形 underspoke, 過去分詞 underspoken)
- To speak with understatement and/or modesty.
- 2009, Kenneth Goldsmith, I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews:
- He underspoke them. A chanteuse is supposed to “sell” the song. Andy, like Blossom, stinted the standard, gave it less, in order to give (secretly) more.
- To fail to say enough; to be too taciturn.
- 2002, Bruce Stovel, Lynn Weinlos, Lynn Weinlos Gregg, The Talk in Jane Austen, page xxi:
- Ronald Hall, in “Mishearing, Misreading, and the Language of Listening.” focusses on the way Austen's characters underspeak and overhear or overspeak and underhear, causing a comedy of misunderstanding that ultimately resolves itself throuhg the attainment of proper modes of listening.
- 2010, Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach:
- A spokesperson should say just enough to get his or her talking points across effectively—and no more. There is a fine line between overspeaking and underspeaking; planning and practice help the spokesperson determine that line
- To speak without sufficient emphasis or volume.
- 1912, The Academy and Literature - Volume 83, page 25:
- She was obviously nervous, and consequently underacted and underspoke her part several times ; yet, with her musical speech and natural manner, she should be a considerable acquisition to the company.
- To speak at the same time as and more quietly than another.
- 2003, Barbara Green, King Saul's Asking, page 34:
- A good deal of what transpires is characters at cross-purposes, underspeaking, talking past each other.
名詞
underspeak (uncountable)
- Speech that is characterized by understatement.
- 2014, David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 6th Edition:
- For some people growing up then, Coward was a bit of a mystery: his later plays were not very good; his pose as a model of cool manners was regarded as effete or snobbish; and the well-intentioned determination to get down to the nitty-gritty left little room for Coward. He and the underspeak of Brief Encounter (45, David Lean) had become dated, and I daresay that hurt him, for a part of him was terribly anxious to be up-to-date (even if he once, à la Wilde, said that no pursuit left you looking more old-fashioned).
- 2017, Robert Gaudi, African Kaiser:
- Even the British government's Official History describes Aitken's battle plan uncharitably, "founded on an infantry drill and tactics not yet modified by fresh war experience." Translation from official British underspeak: a disaster brought on by the sclerotic military brain of a general who'd never fought a real battle.
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