toneless
Britishadjective
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having no tone
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lacking colour or vitality
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In his toneless, dispassionate telling, his entirely incomprehensible position was just too complex for them to understand.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2024
Publicly, she remained above party politics, always attending the state opening of Parliament but delivering the “Queen’s Speech” outlining the government’s agenda in the toneless accents expected of a politically neutral sovereign.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022
The music seethes sadly at this, but the dissonance passes through a sublime moment of consonance — courting sunshine — before drifting back into tension, then transpiring upward into pure shimmer, almost toneless.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021
But that didn’t matter, murmured Beal in his baritone which predictably grows toneless and even deeper following tough losses.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2018
His collar was open and his clothes disordered; his voice was flat and toneless.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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