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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un- +‎ toned

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Examples

  • A particular highlight: the word "nobody" written on Meredith's untoned stomach.

    Top Moments: Mistaken Identities on House, Letterman and Sesame Street 2010

  • 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.

    New Art Club's ballet of belly laughs 2010

  • Where most movies about the era overdo the bell-bottoms and beads, Lee gets the '60s look (down to the untoned bodies) just right.

    A Peace Train Rides Again 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Great Back Debate 2007

  • Why is it up to us to leave no Stone unturned or no Stern untoned?

    The Sayings of Rasmus « Climate Audit 2005

  • 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.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • I get an overwhelming urge to rip that sweater vest right off his untanned, untoned, body.

    Paranoid Pedestrian Ponderings 2003

  • 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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