flatting

Otago is known for its student life, particularly its flatting.

He knew that if you want paint to dry very quickly you flat it-you use turpentine or some other flatting instead of oil.

There are no works composed in keys that require double sharping or double flatting in the key signature, except in jest.

This blemish consisted of a marked flatting of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh notes of the refrain or chorus of the piece.

Because he sang it, she liked its inanity and monotonousness; and most of all, it seemed to her, she loved his hopeless and adorable flatting of every note.

When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it.