high-tone
- a variation of high-toned.
Example Sentences
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“I just hope he has the ability to learn and change. And if he does, he can be a good president. And that is my hope,” she told San Francisco’s high-tone Commonwealth Club in 2017.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
She was diminutive and publicly soft-spoken, but Nancy Reagan's strong will, high-tone tastes and clout with her husband made her a controversial figure during his presidency.
From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2016
But despite the high-tone interview subjects and visual references, there’s something unsparingly vapid about the project.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2013
This time the people came to the politicos, not the other way around, but the vernacular mode was the same - grandly democratic, high-tone and down-home, education and entertainment.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2010
A man in high-tone clothes and a round red cap shouted, “All aboard,” then pult up the steps right into the train.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
