Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not toned; not characterized by permanent distinctive tones as a part of the pronunciation.
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- adjective Not
toned .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A particular highlight: the word "nobody" written on Meredith's untoned stomach.
Top Moments: Mistaken Identities on House, Letterman and Sesame Street 2010
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When Roden's double act, New Art Club, performed with Pete Shenton, started appearing on comedy bills four years ago, I assumed they were a spoof – a couple of men scoring cheap laughs by squeezing their untoned bodies into leotards.
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Where most movies about the era overdo the bell-bottoms and beads, Lee gets the '60s look (down to the untoned bodies) just right.
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And when female subs flaunt their pale, hairy, untoned flabbiness like a badge of honour - and dream of being called ugly and disgusting by a man who is openly cheating on them with someone more attractive.
Archive 2008-09-01 juliette 2008
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And when female subs flaunt their pale, hairy, untoned flabbiness like a badge of honour - and dream of being called ugly and disgusting by a man who is openly cheating on them with someone more attractive.
What Women Want juliette 2008
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The quick bend when you pick up your sobbing 2-year-old, the pounding of your feet as you run to catch the bus, the steady pull of your untoned belly, the dull pressure as you sit bleary-eyed in front of your computer, the sudden twist of your golf swing.
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Why is it up to us to leave no Stone unturned or no Stern untoned?
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There is his home — a poor one, perhaps, but his own, and to it he clings with desperation, sees in and about it attractions and beauty where others perceive nothing but untoned dreariness, unrelieved hopelessness.
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I get an overwhelming urge to rip that sweater vest right off his untanned, untoned, body.
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Slowly but surely, Toss, whose muscles were toned by countless weekend raves of shaking his bottle down to the ground (and then a bit untoned again by lying around half-stoned drinking Red Stripe Crucial Brew), was increasing the distance between him and Sam.
Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991
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