flutey
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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I knew that Ben Wishart's camp, flutey and painfully self-conscious Richard put me in mind of someone, but I'm happy I didn't realise it was Michael Jackson until afterward.
From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2012
Here, Asa assumes the folk-funk stylings of Linda Lewis, borrows the flutey mellotrons from Strawberry Fields Forever, and weaves them into a production so breezy you might reasonably whisper "new Sade".
From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2011
By the end of the '20s, talkies had taken over; Fairbanks sounded flutey and looked older in them.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the irony of nature it was a day bright and sunny; the londubh parted his beak of gold and warbled flutey from the grove, indifferent to all this sorrow of the human world.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
I risked him the flash of an eye as he stood, a becking black body on a bough, his yellow beak shaking out a flutey note of passionate serenade.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
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