adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She replied in a low, restrained voice.
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The room was painted in light, restrained colors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did that make its currency, economy, inflation rate or fiscal policy more restrained and more problematic?
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Ernest Newton was a quiet and restrained product of the artistic circle within which he worked.
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In contrast with the restrained , clipped hautecouture shots of the Fifties, Bailey's pictures generated boldness, brashness, sexuality.
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None the less, sales promotion was, in the early years of shortages, pursued in a restrained way.
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The official response was restrained , even though strikes were technically outlawed by security legislation passed in 1979.
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There is brash capitalism on show, which is unusual in such a restrained , discreet society.