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Examples for "tuneless"
Examples for "tuneless"
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Remember the year we sent a tuneless, squawking turkey as our representative?
2
Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
3
Then he was among them, chanting still in the deep, tuneless voice.
4
If tuneless and bad, the public will not fail to condemn him.
5
Her voice was tuneless, and yet it had a strange, piteous poignancy.
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A howl of untuneful applause rose from under the trees.
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From these untuneful utterances we gladly turn to her prose.
3
Then, with a sudden recurrence of the untuneful note:
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There was not an untuneful inflection in her voice, or a furrow between her brows.
5
They were singing a hymn, but not in the customary untuneful yell of the village school.
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The bell that clears the flying stage became a loud unmelodious clanging.
2
The words came quick and decisive in a not unmelodious voice.
3
The man at the piano still thrashed out his unmelodious chords.
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But his voice sounded harsh and unmelodious, and it made the very ship tremble.
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Buck Daniels stared, blinked, and then burst into unmelodious laughter.
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He resumed his pacing, but this time he hummed in the most unmelodious voice imaginable:
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The unmelodious call of a flicker in the pine-tree, and a towhee singing in the distance.
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Gradually the unmelodious noise rose in volume.
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The voice came again, cultivated but unmelodious.
10
They did not show it by an excessive consumption of indigestible fruit, or by bursting into unmelodious song.
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It sounded hideous-notunmelodious, because it was as rich and full and musical as it ever had been.
12
It had troubled him, that recitation, it had seemed to him harsh, unmelodious....
13
Mud itself-ora Sun editorial-couldnot be plainer than this definition of her exact proficiency in our unmelodious tongue.
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There is a ruggedness in Emerson's verse which attracts some readers while it repels others by its unmelodious rhythm.
15
The not unmelodious chant in which she delivered her admonitions rang out, at times, like the peal of a trumpet.
16
It had been rumoured since Friday that there was a fiddler aboard, who lay sick and unmelodious in Steerage No.