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- adjective Which is
monotone .
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Examples
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She falls into Hatch's lap, literally, as he and his sarcastic partner Deedee the monotonal Kelly Overton investigate Elise's shooting of an intruder in her house.
The Guide to Wednesday TV: Two New Comedies to Hate, the Whitechapel Finale 2011
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The sound is frenetic and heavy, but also monotonal, devoid of light of and shade and – a little weirdly considering how many records they sell – pop hooks.
Pendulum 2010
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It's that whole dyed brunette, smeary red-lipsticked, grinning, monotonal-talking-points thing.
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We do vary the tones a lot, but we can at least understand monotonal speech like synthetic computer voices quite well.
Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We do vary the tones a lot, but we can at least understand monotonal speech like synthetic computer voices quite well.
Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The religious element is part of what makes the appeal of the opposition movement so powerful, which should be yet another reminder of the simplistic and monotonal American public understanding of Islam - particularly Shiite Islam -- in the Middle East.
Howard Schweber: Iran's Revolution: A Hard and Uncertain Path 2009
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But I thought the funniest part - if you go to the rest of their talk - was the monotonal guy talking about how boring Michael Phelps is.
The Olympics: "weirdly unsexy." Ann Althouse 2008
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And in case you missed it--and in the traditional media's habit of going monotonal when things like Obama's speech happen, you can certainly be forgiven if you did--this past monday Darcy Burner unveiled the Responsible Plan to end the war in Iraq PDF.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Of course, this was in reaction to the fact that I took Chem 101 as a freshman and spent more time on that class than my other 13 hours combined, because I did not understand a single word my elderly, monotonal, heavily-accented prof said.
Is Science Overrated? Nick Anthis 2006
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They depict horses in simple, direct strokes almost monotonal (ph) against black nighttime skies.
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