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soft-spoken

['sɔftˌspəuk(ə)n]

прил.

  1. произнесённый тихо; мягкий, тихий

  2. вкрадчивый; любезный; учтивый (о человеке)

Examples from texts

Danny McDavitt was a soft-spoken man a year shy of fifty.
Дэнни Макдэвиту, человеку с негромким голосом, было около пятидесяти лет.
Iles, Greg / Third DegreeАйлс, Грег / Заложники страха
Заложники страха
Айлс, Грег
© ООО Издательство "АСТ-Москва", 2009
© Перевод, И. Метлицкая, 2009
© 2007 by Greg Iles
Third Degree
Iles, Greg
© 2007 by Greg Iles
If what the dispatcher had told him was true, his mother’s soft-spoken physician was barricaded behind the idyllic facade of that house, and he might already have killed someone.
Если верить словам диспетчера, вежливый и спокойный врач забаррикадировался за идиллическим фасадом дома и, похоже, уже совершил убийство.
Iles, Greg / Third DegreeАйлс, Грег / Заложники страха
Заложники страха
Айлс, Грег
© ООО Издательство "АСТ-Москва", 2009
© Перевод, И. Метлицкая, 2009
© 2007 by Greg Iles
Third Degree
Iles, Greg
© 2007 by Greg Iles
She who was so uncommonly smiling and soft-spoken, and such a fine woman, by jingo!
А сначала-то была такая улыбчивая да сладкоречивая и собой видная, черт возьми!
Thackeray, William Makepeace / The NewcomesТеккерей, Уильям Мейкпис / Ньюкомы
Ньюкомы
Теккерей, Уильям Мейкпис
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1978
The Newcomes
Thackeray, William Makepeace
© 1898, by Harper & Brothers

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'sɔftˌspəuk(ə)nAdjectiveпроизнесённый тихо; мягкий; тихий

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