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tinnily

adv. In a tinny way.

Usage examples of "tinnily".

The room was warm, and a record player beside his bunk was tinnily producing Mozart.

In the street under him a siren screamed, and as it died an ambulance bell jangled tinnily on the avenue.

Hello, said Ann, tinnily, and her voice evoked less mysticism amplified, she sounded like a junior high school thespian nervously engaged in a talent show.

Then Arthur and Phoebe hurried into view and jumped into the Jeep, which tinnily turned on and jounced down the drive.

The band followed after, still playing loud and tinnily, and a good portion of the crowd trailed them.

I was assaulted by a range of sensations: breathless equatorial heat, tropical perfumes of flowers and incense, the endless racket of cars, motor-bikes and pedicabs, the smell of spicy meat being cooked on smoking sidewalk stalls, the continuous flash and dazzle of neon advertising, the beat of pop music blaring out tinnily from radios on the food-stalls and from every window and open doorway.