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What does tinny mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
  2. Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal.
  3. Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.
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A tinny piano plays a bouncy ragtime tune over faded sepia photos, unwittingly romanticizing an era now long past.
Many people take issue with older cinema because the sonic rendering can be tinny, distorted, and lacking warmth.
Dialogue often sounded unnaturally tinny, as though people were speaking from within a metallic tube.
It does not like to be beaten up for a fortissimo and if you do this, it will get back at you by giving you a rather tinny sound.
Isn't she that annoying bimbo with the tinny voice who constantly hangs around him?
Staccato beats, tinny keys and metrosexual anxiety permeate Last Exit, the debut full-length by Hamilton, Ontario electro-pop trio Junior Boys.

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