What's the difference between undersong and undertone?

Undersong


Definition:

  • (n.) The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.
  • (n.) Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone.

Example Sentences:

Undertone


Definition:

  • (n.) A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
  • (2) When Johnson or Congressman Earl Blumenauer – who is pushing for extension and reform of the Siv programs – talk about the situation, their articulate exhortations carry undertones of angst.
  • (3) You see from those films, there’s a real sexual undertone of menace.
  • (4) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
  • (5) In a world striving for equal rights, where the female still carries the burden of temporary contraception, the simplicity and popularity of vasectomy for permanent contraception add the desired undertones of social equilibrium.
  • (6) But Revolution, performed at the Regency in San Francisco in a church-like venue that evoked the Moscow cathedral, had repeated dark undertones.
  • (7) "There's an undertone of bad politics and corruption.
  • (8) Aside from such stirring political undertones, dramatic battles will be waged across the 82-award field.
  • (9) There are moments of comedy, but there are some unsettling undertones if you choose to look for them.
  • (10) Words matter and remembering that we were all once strangers in a strange land and that the US is made better in every generation by the arrival of New Americans is central to my campaign.” The Republican party is making a safe space for really racist​​ undertones against undocumented immigrants Professor Jose Luis Benavides Vargas wants candidates to understand that their words matter – even more so in a campaign cycle so far dominated by the bombast of a billionaire businessman who began his campaign by describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” who are “bringing crime”.
  • (11) But his anti-American undertone alienated Germany and the US from each other – and his rigorous refusal didn't help unify the European countries either.
  • (12) Even when Kerry speaks triumphantly, there is a defensive undertone, as if to anticipate and deflect the criticisms that decades in public life have taught him are headed his way.
  • (13) Adam Goodes has my full support and the full support of the AFL.” The booing Goodes receives from opposition fans has been the subject of much debate with his term as Australian of the year, the way he plays the game and racial undertones all put forward as reasons for the adverse reaction.
  • (14) The note of personal disillusion persists, as so often in Imlah, as an undertone rather than a subject.
  • (15) Lewis Jetta ... clearly believes this to be racist, and it obviously has a racist [undertone].
  • (16) But if Bisping's outlook seems relentlessly positive at times, there is also an undeniable undertone of vulnerability.
  • (17) National anthems: We all know them by now and Uruguay's remains more lovable - a sprightly number with menacing undertones.
  • (18) Now, obviously there is a question about what sort of evidence there is to back up claims that persistent technology use is detrimental to our lives, but it’s often intrigued me that we don’t really consider the undertone to the use of the word ‘zombie’.
  • (19) Realistically, for us to say there wasn’t some racial undertone would be frankly just untruthful.” Crawford also said that the 911 call about his son, which led to the shooting, would probably not have been made if a white man had been walking around the store with the BB rifle.
  • (20) First of all biological psychiatry, based on the methods of the natural sciences, has been the subject of denunciation and underevaluation with deep emotional undertones.

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