0 a particular but not obvious characteristic that a piece of writing or speech, an event, or a situation has:
2 a quality of something that you realize exists although it is not expressed directly:
José muttered something to me in an undertone.
In some ways, discounting the political undertones, it is understandable.
The basic theme of that statement has very considerable and even threatening undertones.
Much of what they do has social undertones, and much of their activities has characteristics of local or national monoply.
The ordinary people, as is customary, talked in undertones.
There was no ideological clash, there was no history of bitterness and there were no undertones or overtones of confiscation.
Whether there are overtones or undertones of partisanship in this debate, they are as nothing compared with what would have been raised in another place.
The first emphasises the huge range of overtones and undertones.
All kinds of overtones and undertones have been introduced into the argument.
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