Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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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Examples
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Ya gotta stop with the jelous makein sotto voice asides.
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Il Conte di Pepoli si maraviglia al divino mio talento; lascia i suoi alti complimenti; e dice solamente in sotto voce, 'Ah graziosa!
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I’m feeling pretty cynical about the Bush visit, and not just because getting around Jerusalem has been impossible (again) … [During] Olmert’s speech of welcome at the conference hosted by [Israeli President] Shimon Peres, I found myself adding subtitles sotto voce …
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Non penso di aver mai sofferto di attacchi di panico, ma mi capita di andare "sotto" e quindi di avere quei sintomi che ne sono tipici (tremore freddo, vista e pensieri un po 'confusi).
Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2009
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However, as I say, I think that there was, despite all the public pronouncements to the contrary, a kind of sotto voce enthusiasm for the IRA and its aims if not always its methods!) that persisted, despite the powerful inducements to give the British the benefit of the doubt.
The Debatable Land 2009
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Many sense that the sotto voce theme of Romney's campaign is his electability, but that empirical principle is not enough to win a primary, especially in a party with a base that enthusiastically replaced Mike Castle with Christine O'Donnell in Delaware in 2010.
Fred Bauer: An Affirmative, Pro-Growth Message Could Restore Romney's Momentum Fred Bauer 2012
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Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
Mayor McGinn: I Understand the Budget, the Council Doesn’t « PubliCola 2010
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He traced his sotto voce delivery to subterranean postwar clubs without commentary boxes – he was required to stand just back from the action and explain proceedings without putting anyone off.
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My own Roman Catholic approach would more likely have taken the form of a warp-speed, sotto voce Hail Mary.
Michele Somerville: World AIDS Day 2011: One Catholic's Musings on Hope Michele Somerville 2011
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My own Roman Catholic approach would more likely have taken the form of a warp-speed, sotto voce Hail Mary.
Michele Somerville: World AIDS Day 2011: One Catholic's Musings on Hope Michele Somerville 2011
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