Adjective : tuneful compositions. From Dictionary.com.
From these untuneful utterances we gladly turn to her prose. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Do you not suffer, when people accost you in a stammering or hesitating manner, in an untuneful voice, with false accents and cadences; puzzling and blundering through solecisms, barbarisms, and vulgarisms; misplacing even their bad words, and inverting all method?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Then, with a sudden recurrence of the untuneful note. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903] Reference
A howl of untuneful applause rose from under the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Loom of Youth] Reference
It was very untuneful and the dances just kind of repeated themselves over and over. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
The mullah's voice, not untuneful was rousing all the valley echoes in the call to prayer. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference
The streets are indeed 'mental', one huge untuneful cacophany of irritating motorbike horns. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
It was the sound of a big man clearing his throat; and just then a hoarse, untuneful voice broke into singing. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
The sound of Nick's cheery, untuneful humming seemed to invest all things with a more normal and wholesome aspect. From Wordnik.com. [The Keeper of the Door] Reference
A mile away the rider who had ridden past the wagon-shed struck up a harsh, untuneful song, the words of which began. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
For this woman, the human note, -- be it never so untuneful -- surpassed the sublimest music plucked from the heart of wood or wire. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Amulet] Reference
Lanyard nodded, recalling that on his way up the street from Sixth Avenue he had been subconsciously irritated by the shrill, untuneful whistling of. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
They were not altogether silent; but even in that spring time of the year they only exhibited their pleasure by a faint untuneful twittering and chirping. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Onslow Among the Redskins] Reference
We have no more untuneful bird, surely, than the cow bunting; yet even the serenades of this shameless polygamist have one merit, -- they are at least amusing. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
The tradition handed down from Dr. Price, a colleague of Watts, relates that at the age of eighteen Isaac became so irritated at the crabbed and untuneful hymns sung at the Nonconformist meetings that he complained bitterly of them to his father. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference
All who have consciously practised the art of writing know what endless and painful vigilance is needed for the avoidance of the unfit or untuneful phrase, how the meaning must be tossed from expression to expression, mutilated and deceived, ere it can find rest in words. From Wordnik.com. [Style] Reference
And if you laugh, you untuneful harp, I'll hang one right on the end of your chin, so help me! ". From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
What with the open door into his father's room, whence you could hear the thin frettings made by the man who had lain these ten years with chronic rheumatism, and the untuneful whistlings of whittling Tom, the big brother, the shapely supple giant whose mind had never grown since the fall from the barn room when he was eight years old, and the acrid complaints of the tall gaunt mother, stepping about getting their inadequate supper, in her gray wrapper, with the ugly little blue shawl pinned round her shoulders, it was as bad a place as you might find in a year's journeying for anyone to keep bright and "chirk up" in. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Ringo even delivers a shout-out to a fellow Beatle - "Alright, George" - before the latter proceeds into a guitar solo (which, like his composition on "I Saw Her Standing There", is strangely patchy and untuneful. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
A most untuneful noise. From Wordnik.com. [N or M]
That her voice untuneful grown. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
In measures artless and untuneful. From Wordnik.com. [Man of Uz, and Other Poems] Reference
A howl of untuneful applause went up. From Wordnik.com. [The Loom of Youth] Reference
He lifted up a strong and untuneful voice. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings. From Wordnik.com. [Index to First Lines] Reference
For now the untuneful trump shall grate no more. From Wordnik.com. [The Columbiad] Reference
And no untuneful Lyric vein, S5. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets] Reference
"Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings. From Wordnik.com. [Index to Poems, Chronologically] Reference
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