Crossword-Solution: TINNY 5 letters, 61 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Tinny a. Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

We have 61 clues for the answer “TINNY”

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Not resonant 1 answer
Like a flimsy metal 1 answer
Like a honky-tonk piano 1 answer
Like a toy piano's sound 1 answer
Like a toy ukulele's sound 1 answer
Like an old piano 1 answer
Like cheap pianos 1 answer
Like cheap speakers 1 answer
Like old radios 1 answer
Like saloon pianos 1 answer
Like some horns 1 answer
Like some pianos 1 answer
Like the sound of a toy piano 1 answer
Metallic in sound 1 answer
Metallic-sounding 1 answer
Not at all resonant 1 answer
Like a cheap speaker, perhaps 1 answer
Of poor sound quality 1 answer
Shiny but cheap 1 answer
Sonically poor 1 answer
Sounding like a toy piano 1 answer
Sounding like toy pianos 1 answer
Sounding poor, as a piano 1 answer
Sounding thin and metallic 1 answer
Stannic 1 answer
Thin, as sound 1 answer
Thin-toned 1 answer
Time in New York, jangling 1 answer
Weak and thin, as a voice 1 answer
With a high metallic sound 1 answer
thin and metallic in sound 1 answer
Like a cheap speaker's sound 1 answer
Like a cheap piano 1 answer
Lacking resonance 1 answer
Lacking in resonance, e.g. 1 answer
Lacking in resonance 1 answer
Having a thin, metallic sound 1 answer
Having a metallic sound. 1 answer
Having a high metallic sound 1 answer
Hardly mellow 1 answer
Cheap-sounding 1 answer
Cheap-seeming 1 answer
Bright but cheap. 1 answer
Bassless? 1 answer
Thin sounding 2 answers
Like a flivver. 2 answers
Thin in tone 2 answers
Thin-sounding 2 answers
metallic 4 answers
Like this puzzle's theme? 7 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TINNY (5)

When he flew to the back of a chair and perched upon it, his tin feathers rattled against one another with a tinny clatter.
The Tin Woodman of Oz L. Frank Baum 1997
Here, a saloon flung a sudden glow of yellow light athwart the sidewalk as its swinging doors jerked apart; and a form lurched out into the night; there, from a dance-hall came the rattle of a tinny piano, the squeak of a raspy violin, a high-pitched, hectic burst of laughter; while, flanking the street on each side, like interjected inanimate blotches, rows of squalid tenements and cheap, tumble-down frame houses silhouetted themselves in broken, jagged points against the sky-line.
The White Moll Frank L. Packard 1999
Little creatures seethed round about her, making a shrill, tinny clamour; others clustered about the skirts and trousers of their parents.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1999
Nothing can be more lovely than this late autumn day, so still, save for the droning of the thresher and the constant tinny chuckle of the grey, thin-headed Guinea-fowl, driven by this business away from their usual haunts.
Quality and Other Studies and Essays John Galsworthy 2004
The day of weighing out pepper and salt was over; never again would the tinny jangle of the accursed bell smite his ears.
Australia Felix Henry Handel Richardson 2003

Quotes with TINNY (3)

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.
Arundhati Roy
Why did you do this?" He was shaking. "Just tell me why." I tried to muster up some of the righteous indignation that I'd felt on Friday night as I said, "You knocked over my gravestone!" But even to my ears the words sounded tinny and pathetic. Dan's face was pale. "It was just a gravestone, Chelsea. And it was a mistake. I told you that already, and I meant it. I've never lied to you. My God, can't you tell the difference between a gravestone and a person you love? Can't yo…
Leila Sales Past Perfect
The day had begun to feel tinny: a pretend day, a dream day, that for some unaccountable reason she had to go on and on with as if it were real.
Sarah Waters
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 77 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).