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Meanings of untuneful in English
Portuguese
desafinado Spanish
áspero Synonyms
Examples for "tuneless"
Examples for "tuneless"
1
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.
1
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.
4
But his voice sounded harsh and unmelodious, and it made the very ship tremble.
5
Buck Daniels stared, blinked, and then burst into unmelodious laughter.
Usage of untuneful in English
1
A howl of untuneful applause rose from under the trees.
2
From these untuneful utterances we gladly turn to her prose.
3
Then, with a sudden recurrence of the untuneful note:
4
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.
6
The mullah's voice, not untuneful was rousing all the valley echoes in the call to prayer.
7
The sound of Nick's cheery, untuneful humming seemed to invest all things with a more normal and wholesome aspect.
8
For this woman, the human note,-beit never so untuneful-surpassedthe sublimest music plucked from the heart of wood or wire.
9
A mile away the rider who had ridden past the wagon-shed struck up a harsh, untuneful song, the words of which began:
10
He took a last look at the shaded green garden and left, whistling in an off key an untuneful air from a roofless farce comedy.
11
"Mistress Isabel," he said; and his voice was broken and untuneful.
12
"Thank God!" he said, in a choking voice, then began to sing loud, untuneful ditties.
13
A howl of untuneful applause rose from under the trees.
14
From these untuneful utterances we gladly turn to her prose.
15
Then, with a sudden recurrence of the untuneful note:
16
There was not an untuneful inflection in her voice, or a furrow between her brows.
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Untuneful through the time