She spoke in measured tones.measuredmea‧sured /ˈmeʒəd $ -ərd/ adjective 
a measured response to the problem She spoke in measured tones.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a calm and measured response
- Let us return to the measured tones of Cliff Cunningham.
- Their strident moralism jarred with both the measured middle-class radicalism of the repealers and the dominant patrician language of high politics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She spoke in measured tones.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
She spoke in measured tones. (=very carefully controlled)· He spoke slowly, in a calm and measured tone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Consider the view that the link between aggregate consumption and current measured income is a tenuous one. 4.· People with identical opportunity sets make different decisions, because of differences in tastes, and as a consequence have different measured incomes.· Conversely, people may have different opportunity sets but the same measured income.· These generate income according to the comprehensive definition, but are not typically included in measured income.
· Before each session, he had watched their suspect sizing up his interrogators, readying his replies in measured tones.· Instead of their polished manner and measured tones, he sweats under the studio lights and delivers his lines in a bellow.· If the events outlined by Kelly came as a shock or a surprise, he concealed it in his calm measured tones.· There was almost, thought the Doctor, a trace of boredom in those measured tones.· Let us return to the measured tones of Cliff Cunningham.
WORD FAMILYadjectivemeasurable ≠ immeasurablemeasuredmeasurelessnounmeasuremeasurementverbmeasureadverbmeasurably ≠ immeasurably
if you do something in a measured way, you do it in a careful and controlled way, not in an excited or sudden way: a measured response to the problem She spoke in measured tones.