underspeak

Meaning

1. verb To speak with understatement and/or modesty.
2. verb To fail to say enough; to be too taciturn.
3. verb To speak without sufficient emphasis or volume.
4. verb To speak at the same time as and more quietly than another.
5. noun Speech that is characterized by understatement.

Similar words

underact undertone underarticulate outsilence damn with faint praise pale in comparison be silent under-attend hold one's peace make sense