Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being toneless; lack of tone, in any sense.
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- noun The state or condition of being
toneless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Oh," she said, with all the tonelessness of disinterest, and went on with her stitching.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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His voice had the tonelessness of a surgeon's asking for another scalpel.
Quiller Meridian Hall, Adam 1993
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Mamie McInnes played while Barney Car and her husband, Jerry, sang with good-natured tonelessness.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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The tonelessness in her voice belied the tears in her eyes.
The Way to Dusty Death MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1973
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The hostility was gone from his voice; nothing remained but an even tonelessness.
Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958
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The hostility was gone from his voice; nothing remained but an even tonelessness.
Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938
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His defective ear would never allow him to catch the trick of the accent — he would always speak with the tonelessness of the foreigner — but his vocabulary was widening and his grammar growing more certain and he was acquiring a fluency in the idiom which more than once earned him a pretty compliment from his host.
Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938
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In spite of herself, the dead tonelessness of the man's voice aroused her to sudden pity.
Prairie Flowers 1921
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The calm assurance of the man fanned her rising anger, and, when she answered, her voice was low and steady, with the tonelessness of forced control.
The Gun-Brand 1921
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For the first time in all the afternoon, his voice lost its tonelessness, and rang out with the resonance of sincerity.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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