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Meaning of undertoned | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Not sufficiently toned.
  2. Having an undertone of a specified kind.
    in-compounds, not-comparable

Examples

“Makeup is most often a shopper’s port of entry into recreational buying, yet it is also where race immediately thwarts that lovely sense of possibility. I want foundation by the latest maker, but it’s all too ashen or ruddy for my brown, yellow-undertoned complexion.”
“[…] talk show host Chris Matthews chastised former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney for his racially undertoned birther jokes […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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