tinny
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Timo Kurkikangas’s sound design could use some tweaks—the spoken text was sometimes tinny or drowned out by the orchestra.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Nearly all televisions have small, tinny speakers that make it difficult to hear dialogue, especially for some of us older folk.
From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025
“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” was her tinny response, and that gaffe is entirely on the former vice president.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025
The sound was tinny, distorted, mechanical and artificial-sounding.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2024
“Your hair must be”—Miss Grund grimaces and reaches up to her own head, as if patting down soap bubbles—“tamed. You never know how they might feel about a redhead. Especially that tinny shade.”
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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