Adjective : In the corner stood a tuneless old piano. From Dictionary.com.
But the mavis is tuneless, the lark strives in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Yvette loudly and irritatingly trilled a tuneless tune. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference
Chet forced air through his teeth in a tuneless whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
MGM had its musicals, and now it's tuneless and hobbling. From Wordnik.com. [Just The Way Walt Made 'Em] Reference
And again she trilled her tune, rather shrill and tuneless. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference
A tuneless singing now, followed by the clicking of the spiders. From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
The voice was the tuneless, yet impressive and ironical tone of Maitre. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
The wind whistled around the cliffs, ceaselessly moaning a tuneless song. From Wordnik.com. [The Judas Valley] Reference
She told him the amount, and he whistled, the sound tuneless and grating. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
Lifting, the tension abruptly off him, Saxtorph exploded into tuneless song. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
I bellow tuneless refrains, luxuriate in the warmth, the massagelike effect. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
Behind them came the miserable band, playing a monotonous and tuneless march. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
She went on with her tuneless playing, and then bowed as if she had finished. From Wordnik.com. [Fifth Formers at St. Clare's]
Once outside Harvey did a little gavotte and sang a tuneless, improvised song. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
It is a kind of long-drawn wail, very monotonous and tuneless to European ears. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
They have chanted a depressing psalm or two to the most tuneless of ancient ditties. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Craigdallie, who was obviously tired of the tuneless screeching of the worthy deacon. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
Their cries, particularly the tuneless scream of one of the toads, wore on her temper. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Then the discreet automaton who had surveyed his ground, played a blossomless tuneless. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
His vocals tend toward the deadpan tuneless, but he writes lovely melodies with a sting. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnetic Fields' Hard-Headed 'Realism'] Reference
All the next week, she sang along with everything that came over the radio, tuneless or not. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Jesse sang a sea chanty more softly, then finally let his voice trail off to a tuneless hum. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
'This is the finest time of my life,' he admits in a tuneless croon on 'Bill Is Dead', while. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles] Reference
She held him on her lap, rocking back and forth, humming a tuneless monotone under her breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
But the aged Chetonquin muttered to herself in a tuneless quaver, and shook her head doubtingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference
In the evening she went to the piano, choosing new music of the dexterous, tuneless, florid kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
Cord knew that With a long sigh and a bit of tuneless whistling, Gord began plodding up the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
You can still seek out bands like Tyvek for joyous blasts of tuneless skronk, if that's your thing. From Wordnik.com. [All the Pretty Verses, Indie Style] Reference
It is punctuated by your mother's tuneless whistle, one note repeated endlessly like a sad lost bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Darkness of White Noise] Reference
'If you thought my playing was bad, then you should hear me sing; tuneless doesn't even come into it!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Virgin]
She rocked back and forth, tuneless breath whistling between her teeth, Jeannie's head still in her lap. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
She heard Cath's tuneless humming, familiar from spending so much time with the girl in different houses. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
He would accompany the dancing sequences with a deep and tuneless humming, like a hive of distraught bees. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Behold the drunkard leaves his rocky home, trolling loud some hideous lay, a clumsy tuneless clown, whom tears await. From Wordnik.com. [The Cyclops] Reference
Half an hour later she was standing by the spinet, absently touching the tuneless keys, when a voice from the window startled her. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters] Reference
I can imagine my father walking back to the garage, the ax slung Paul Bunyan-like over his shoulder, whistling a tuneless little ditty. From Wordnik.com. [The Boundary Line] Reference
I can imagine my father walking back to the garage, the ax slung Paul Bunyan-like over his shoulder, whistling a tuneless little ditty. From Wordnik.com. [The Boundary Line] Reference
The old lady ignored me for a while, carrying on with her strange slow-motion spinning and singing a tuneless little song under her breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
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