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  • adjective slightly colored, having tint
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tint.

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Examples

  • Every goal, every desire, every institution, every attitude is, to a greater or lesser extent, shaped and "tinted" by the primary idea of capitalism which is maximum individual economic profit.4 This thesis serves as the starting point for the three main analytical and historical tasks of his book, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism.

    Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism: Part I 2007

  • CATHY SHIYAN, WITNESS: The windows were kind of tinted, but we could see his profile, and we actually saw him walking around, pacing inside with the shotgun, and then I was scared.

    CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2001 2001

  • St. Dunstan is reported to have once "tinted" a sacerdotal vestment to oblige a lady, thus departing from his regular occupation as goldsmith to perform the office of a dyer of stuff.

    Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

  • -- Another rather expeditious mode of transferring patterns on to thin and more especially smooth glossy stuffs, is by means of a special kind of tinted paper, called autographic paper, which is impregnated with a coloured oily substance and is to be had at any stationer's shop.

    Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

  • - Another rather expeditious mode of transferring patterns on to thin and more especially smooth glossy stuffs, is by means of a special kind of tinted paper, called autographic paper, which is impregnated with a coloured oily substance and is to be had at any stationer's shop.

    Jane Austen's World Vic 2010

  • - Another rather expeditious mode of transferring patterns on to thin and more especially smooth glossy stuffs, is by means of a special kind of tinted paper, called autographic paper, which is impregnated with a coloured oily substance and is to be had at any stationer's shop.

    RVABlogs Vic 2010

  • He pictured his two little girls in the backseat of the presidential limousine, gazing at the Maryland woods through tinted, bulletproof windows.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • This “classic” ESL text, recently updated with green headlines and green tinted pages in the appendix, remains a favorite among English grammar fundamentalists.

    Fundamentals of English Grammar « Books « Literacy News 2009

  • Sonoran police said Torres' three companions left his body outside the emergency room of the General Hospital in Nogales on the Mexico side of the border at around 3 a.m. local time and then left in a vehicle with tinted windows.

    Mexican teen dies after Arizona border incident 2011

  • Around him, the room shimmered and wavered and his eyes tinted over with a green film as if he were trapped within a colored, pulsing sphere of light.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

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