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- adjective
comparative form oftinny : moretinny
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Examples
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Over the past 10 years, pop voices have gotten thinner and tinnier with Auto-Tune and other production techniques.
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I could have never guessed that the sound of public radio is different alone—tinnier, a tad more authoritative.
Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010
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The first-generation cars are tinnier the current model, somewhat underpowered, and often a bit beat up, but thus Great Depression-style cheap.
Five Gay Cars for the Economic Apocalypse : Brett Berk Berk, Brett 2008
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The corner bar nowadays has CNBC playing on the TV as much as sports, and nothing sounds tinnier than envy.
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The Santa Fe feels a bit more substantial to me; the RAV4's doors shut with a tinnier sound.
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The Santa Fe feels a bit more substantial to me; the RAV4's doors shut with a tinnier sound.
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The tinny rattle of die aluminum top was no tinnier than my voice as I said, "Yes, sir," because I knew what little bottles of colorless fluid could reasonably be assumed to contain.
The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952
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The ease of these three weak and tinnier animals, the gazelle, the hare, and the partridge, was not regarded as worthy of the monarch.
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The Amstrad wasn't much different to the Commodore -- brighter graphics, tinnier sound -- but came with a built-in tape deck, a crisp color monitor, and a decent warranty.
Boing Boing Rob Beschizza 2011
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To many expert ears, compressed music files produce a crackly, tinnier and thinner sound than music on CDs and certainly on vinyl.
MyAppleMenu 2010
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