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  • adjective Alternative spelling of tony.

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Examples

  • Then their flannel and worsted pinstripe double-breasted office suiting is the last word in toney men’s wear.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Maybe you can call toney Palo Alto, Calif. with 60,000-plus people "small."

    unknown title 2009

  • It's the "toney" communities you make fun of that are spreading all this hysteria about the tunnel option, and not L.A.

    Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Friday 2009

  • They might like to interview some of the South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latin American immigrants, and ask them what "toney" means.

    rabble.ca - News for the rest of us 2009

  • Even Toronto-Danforth or Trinity-Spadina might be casually deemed "toney" these days, through the sheer Stuff White People Like-ness of the Annex, Riverdale, etc.

    rabble.ca - News for the rest of us 2009

  • We’re not what you’d call a toney hangout, and maybe he thought he wouldn’t run into his Wall Street buddies here.

    Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995

  • We’re not what you’d call a toney hangout, and maybe he thought he wouldn’t run into his Wall Street buddies here.

    Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995

  • We’re not what you’d call a toney hangout, and maybe he thought he wouldn’t run into his Wall Street buddies here.

    Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995

  • "toney" green linoleum, and also had a multiplicity of little shelves on which to keep his pipes, tobacco, cigars, and other household gods.

    South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

  • Made Bruno Gerussi a household name ... recall a Video store in the 'toney' section of TO which had a front-of-store display of Canadian Films [the only place you could get 'Going Down the road', Highway 69, Cube,

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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