Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a style without rhythm. Also spelled
arhythmically .
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- adverb In an
arrhythmic manner; without a fixedrhythm
Etymologies
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Examples
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But for all the irrepressible swing and relaxation that makes him one of the great jazz drummers, Bennink's been a key figure on the European improv and free jazz scenes since the mid-60s, marrying arrhythmically graceful grooving to a knockabout comic's repertoire of circus-drummer rolls, clacking, yelps, crash stops and acrobatics.
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Still, ESPN's cameras found a few Jets cynics wailing and arrhythmically shaking their heads, as if they'd been told that Radio City had run out of beer.
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Betraying her rock roots, Inul doesn't so much twist in time with the music as arrhythmically hurl herself around the stage like a dangdut Joan Jett.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Betraying her rock roots, Inul doesn't so much twist in time with the music as arrhythmically hurl herself around the stage like a dangdut Joan Jett.
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Your convictions that wearing tie-dyed clothing made by 6-year-olds in Bangladesh, eating a diet consisting only of tofu and garden weeds, and pounding arrhythmically on drums until the wee hours of the morning are the way to achieve such peace amuse me.
An open letter to my hippie neighbors. Angry Professor 2008
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Your convictions that wearing tie-dyed clothing made by 6-year-olds in Bangladesh, eating a diet consisting only of tofu and garden weeds, and pounding arrhythmically on drums until the wee hours of the morning are the way to achieve such peace amuse me.
Archive 2008-04-01 Angry Professor 2008
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Fed raps arrhythmically beneath the safety of his ballcap, mumbling every tired rhyme he can conjure, short of K.
Snap Judgment: K. Fed at the Teen Choice Awards | EW.com 2006
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He was wasted, but sweet, and ricocheted between his arrhythmically white buddies and his girlfriend, embracing them all in turn.
luvabeans Diary Entry luvabeans 2004
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The orchestra's moody accompaniments often had a geologic weight, as masses of sound shifted against each other almost arrhythmically.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2011
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Don’t have much to say about the 1996 Oxford scene other than I definitely went to school with a bunch of 1996 Daniels, even if they didn’t talk quite as Beatniklike; I was half-ready for him to solve Desmond’s problem by arrhythmically wailing on some drums.
LOST RECAP: Desmond Hume Has Come Unstuck In Time. | Best Week Ever 2008
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