But a slight undertone in his voice promised nothing pleasant.

There may have been the slightest undertone of regret in the voice.

There was a slight undertone of doubt in the word.

Its flavor is not just sweet, but much more complex, with slight bitter undertones.

If you're teaching history the way it went, there are slight undertones to white people being bad.

Yet she did so, in the end, without the slightest undertone of restiveness.

The flavor was vaguely green and spicy, sweet with a slight smoky undertone.

There was also a smell, harshly chemical with a slight undertone like rotten fish.

The meat was rather tough, but it tasted wonderful, oily and salty with a slight undertone of musk.

"I am of no use to the fleet," Fixer said, with the slightest undertone of menace.