monotone
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“I have always valued my lifelessness,” Ortiz says in a hilariously monotone voice, quoting Tik-Tok.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Her understated androgyny was paired with a shout-singing vocal style that had a snarly, monotone curl laced with abandon and disregard for convention.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Ms Hodson wrote: "I asked him about the incident at his admissions meeting and he was monotone, emotionless and very matter of fact about his intentions."
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025
In the steady monotone of a public affairs officer, Lawler painted the slapdash efforts of Musk's army of teenagers and 20-somethings as a "comprehensive forensic audit."
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2025
Mr. Sparling became restive and bitter and began to talk in a desolate monotone about his eleven months in France during the Great War.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Vocabulary lists containing monotone
"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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