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overtone
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overtone as in:  a menacing overtone

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  • The tyrannosaur roared again, but this time it had distinct musical overtones, and a kind of echo, persisting afterward.  (source)
    overtones = a subtle or secondary quality
  • Open crates, and overtones of urine.†  (source)
  • In France and Italy, the words for "left"—gauche and sinistra—came to have deeply negative overtones, while their right-hand counterparts rang of righteousness, dexterity, and correctness.†  (source)
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  • Then applause filled the hall again, some of it not without satiric overtones.†  (source)
  • He had discerned a clear overtone of tragedy in the crier's voice, and even now he could still hear it as it grew dimmer and dimmer in the distance.†  (source)
  • This was a dramatic shift in the meaning of an age-old expression with warlike overtones.†  (source)
  • An element of indifference is the ultimate overtone.†  (source)
  • And beneath that there was a hint of lilt that brought back the overtones of a cat burglar i'd known who had grown up on Asquith, a quiet, backwater Web world settled by First Expansion immigrants from what had once been the British Isles.†  (source)
  • I even pitched my voice to a low plane, trying to rob it of any suggestion or overtone of aggressiveness.†  (source)
  • It was the smell of flowers with overtones of gardenia and jasmine, unmistakably his mother's perfume that he kept hidden away in his little tin box.†  (source)
  • Quentin did not answer him, did not pause, his voice level, curious, a little dreamy yet still with that overtone of sullen bemusement, of smoldering outrage: so that Shreve, still too, resembling in his spectacles and nothing else (from the waist down the table concealed him; anyone entering the room would have taken him to be stark naked) a baroque effigy created out of colored cake dough by someone with a faintly nightmarish affinity for the perverse, watched him with thoughtful and intent curiosity.)†  (source)
  • I'm told it means 'well-dipper,' a meaning with rather important overtones here.†  (source)
  • The words of Krsna, the world savior, to the wives of the dead Kans carry a frightening overtone; so do the words of Jesus: "I came not to send peace, but a sword.†  (source)
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