undertoned

comparative more undertoned · superlative most undertoned

1. Not sufficiently toned.

1. in compoundsnot comparableHaving an undertone of a specified kind.

   […] talk show host Chris Matthews chastised former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney for his racially undertoned birther jokes […]

   2012 August 30, The Oracle

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   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.

   2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista, Boston: Northeastern University Press, page 19

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of undertone