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Example sentences from the Web for tonelessHere he suddenly felt the toneless; he had the feeling one might have on looking at a deep-sea fish: it is lifeless, toneless. The Goose Man|Jacob Wassermann It was very dear to her, yet the toneless voice gave a strange unreality to the tender words. The History of Sir Richard Calmady|Lucas Malet "I haven't appreciated you sufficiently, Sally," she said in a toneless voice. Sally Bishop|E. Temple Thurston "And they will collect another inhabitable place," she said, her voice flat and toneless. Old Rambling House|Frank Patrick Herbert
"You have such burdens, dear," she said, and he noticed that her voice had acquired the toneless sweetness of her mother's.
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adjectivehaving no tone lacking colour or vitality Derived forms of tonelesstonelessly, adverbtonelessness, nounWords nearby tonelesstone-deaf, tone dialing, tone down, Tonegawa, tone language, toneless, toneme, tone painting, tone poem, tone policing, toner Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to tonelesstedious, repetitious, boring, repetitive, dreary, humdrum, tiresome, dull, ho-hum, plodding, vague, matter-of-fact, impassive, deadpan, dispassionate, detached, unemotional, lax, sloppy, muted |