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Definition of Tinniness
1. Noun. Having the quality of tin, particularly in the sense of being a cheap, low quality metal. ¹
2. Noun. The thin, unpleasant sound of an instrument made of tin, or any tinny object used to make a sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinniness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinniness
Literary usage of Tinniness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... tinned beef of surpassing tinniness, compressed vegetables, and meat-biscuits
may be nourishing, but what Thomas Atkins needs is bulk in his inside. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"Erbswurst, tinned beef of surpassing tinniness, compressed vegetables and
meat-biscuits may be nourishing, but what Thomas Atkins wants is bulk in his ..."
3. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer (1919)
"The American society is that of a marvelous larger canvas, therefore, I infer,
is not her thinness — tinniness, rather. Are we as a natural opportunity, ..."
4. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"She has American society is that of a marvelous rarely caught its more significant
notes or thinness—tinniness, rather. Are we as a tried to peer beneath ..."
5. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1915)
"The larger thinness — tinniness, rather. Are we as a 55 canvas, therefore, I
infer, is not her nat- people when we evolve into ' society,' are ural ..."
6. The Practice of Oil Painting and of Drawing as Associated with it by Solomon Joseph Solomon (1910)
"But the head of the Virgin, otherwise beautiful, has about it a hard tinniness,
for the edges are too clearly cut and not lost and found enough against its ..."
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