tone police
- a word derived from tone policing.
- a word derived from tone policing.
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Once that’s all done, you can proceed to let Amazon tone police your conversations.
From The Verge ● Dec. 15, 2021
One of the immigration activists who confronted Sinema, Dr. Sophia Marjanovic, defended her actions in a Facebook post earlier this month, accusing critics of being the "tone police."
From Fox News ● Oct. 21, 2021
She helped women perfect their tone — although “they have been dealing with the tone police all of their lives,” she told the New York Times.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2020
And then if you try to push them on it or tell them they’re doing something wrong, they tone-police you.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2020
