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Meanings of unrhythmic in English

Not rhythmic; irregular in beat or accent.

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Examples for "unrhythmical"
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His own enrolled unrhythmical bardic troops (humorous mercenaries when Celts) do his trumpeting best, and offend not the Pierides.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
2
His wing-covers are nevertheless in rapid motion, but are no longer sounding, or at most emit but an unrhythmical rubbing sound.
Social Life in the Insect World
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He must recognize unrhythmical, uncadenced, disjointed, and ejaculatory prose dialogue, with scarcely a lyrical moment in it, as a fit vehicle for music.
Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
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Unrhythmical singing could not always hold its own; and when polyphonic music came into public favor, secular airs gradually found their way into the choirs.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
Usage of unrhythmic in English
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Constrictions, inharmonious and unrhythmic jerks are always out of place in any exercise.
How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfaction...
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Even my own decidedly unrhythmic headnods seemed to sync magically to Lewis Taylor.
The Guardian
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They had that unrhythmic frequency which suggested that they were responses to a speech.
The Pirates of Ersatz
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We then speak of it as unrhythmic.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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So the terms rhythmic and unrhythmic are purely conventional, as also are harmony and discord, which have no actual existence.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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Rhythmic movements accomplish ten times more than unrhythmic ones, even if unrhythmic movements do not produce unhealthy and abnormal results.
How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfaction...
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A dozen warriors naked to the waist and hideously painted were singing a war song, while they capered and jumped to its unrhythmic tune.
The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky
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It was settled, nose first, into the crook of a downed cypress log and the current lightly rocked its stern in an unrhythmic way.
The blue edge of midnight
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Unrhythmic through the time