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View definitions for undertone

undertone

noun as in suggestion, whisper

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The words of the first black man to play for the senior England team - Viv Anderson - have a steely, serious and thought-provoking undertone.

From BBC

The song is joyful, but with an unmistakable undertone of frustration and despair.

From Salon

“There’s always this undertone of mass incarceration,” Gascón said of his opponent’s rhetoric.

Harris is trying “to appeal to voters from all across the country,” said Contois, adding that there’s a “nationalist undertone” to McDonald’s that may help, too.

“In real life, it might be presented slightly more subtly, but the undertone, the energy, the intentionality is out there in the world like that,” Moore confirms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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