sotto

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The rascal left the compartment, muttering to himself in Arabic sotto voce.

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  1. Under; below: an Italian word occurring in a few phrases: as, sotto il soggetto, below the subject; sotto voce, under the voice, in an undertone, aside.

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  • William winked at me in a kind of sotto voce way, and with that natural exuberance or intellectual "gall" that never fails to strike the "bull's eye," I bluntly said that Garnier's philosophy and composition were as different from Shakspere's as the earth from the heaven! —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Shakspere, by Colonel John A. Joyce
  • Ronnie's problems with sex and aggression are epitomized in an extended volley of alternately loud and sotto voce —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • La XX Assemblea Generale dell'ONU (1965) dichiara "la legittimità della lotta da parte dei popoli sotto oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il loro diritto all 'autodeter - minazione e all'indipendenza". —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Every time she hears him say her name, even if it's in mock sotto voce tones barely audible in the gusting wind, she immediately stops whatever she's doing and bounds over to him.
  • Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much. —  Progressive Bloggers
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  1. Italian, from Latin subter, under, beneath, from sub, under: see sub-.
 

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