manner of speaking
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally - his manner of speaking was quite abrupt - her speech was barren of southernisms - I detected a slight accent in his speech • Syn: speech, delivery • Derivationally related forms: deliver (for: delivery) • Hypernyms: expressive style, style • Hyponyms: address, catch, tongue, shibboleth, tone, tone of voice, elocution, prosody, inflection, modulation • Part Holonyms: paralanguage, paralinguistic communication
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