Similar words: hawker, low blow, key, pokey, hickey, turkey, whiskey, hockey. Meaning: adj. restrained in style or quality.
(1) The wedding will be a very low-key affair.
(2) We want to keep the whole affair as low-key as possible.
(3) He wanted to keep the meetings low-key.
(4) Their wedding was a very low-key affair.
(5) The wedding was a very low-key affair.
(6) We have a fairly low-key approach to discipline.
(7) The wedding was a low-key affair, with fewer than thirty people attending.
(8) They want the funeral to be as low-key as possible.
(9) He had an appealing, low-key manner.
(10) This year's campaign was low-key and quiet.
(11) He was our numbers guy, low-key, unemotional.
(12) His linguistic minimalism can also be effective-his low-key description of a hanging is quite the most harrowing I've read.
(13) In the war against Microsoft, it was a low-key day.
(14) Weld has adopted an unusually low-key posture at this meeting in contrast to the high-profile figure he has cut in the past.
(15) Perhaps it means that low-key, sporadic participation, which is the norm for most displays of citizenship, is not enough?
(16) As a bandleader, Basie was low-key and hang-loose but the band itself was incredibly tight.
(17) Even their twittering seems fairly low-key compared with the excited sounds they made just a few weeks ago.
(18) Bush's low-key message is that the important thing is to get on with the job.
(19) Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., has been moving in a low-key(sentencedict.com), bipartisan direction to look at campaign financing improprieties.
(20) Dressed in variations of tasteful black, the petite blond actress looks like an Armani study of low-key swank.
(21) It was to hold up any new organizing at all, even on a quiet, low-key scale.
(22) You may also notice that your child likes to maintain a fairly low-key emotional state.
(23) The induction into values and beliefs is here very low-key with the emphasis on personal search.
(24) Their marriage, which had followed soon afterwards, was a very quiet, low-key affair.
(25) On the first day of the blockade, policing was low-key.
(26) In a hotel ballroom in Des Moines, the post-caucuses victory party was low-key but had a quiet inevitability.
(27) Fuel protest runs out of steam A national protest by truckers demanding cheaper fuel turned out to be a low-key affair.
(28) The politicking between the ruwatu is kept at a relatively low-key level, for they rarely meet as a group.
(29) I also went to classes at the local clinic but they were a low-key sort of affair.
(30) A couple of earlier recordings are slightly disappointing compared to his live performances, but this low-key album shows Anderson to perfection.