ill-sounding

I just feel that the word adoah, while cute and charming and affectionate and intimate and warm and cuddly and embedded as it is in Taiwanese culture, is a bit, what is the word, bad-sounding, ill-sounding, to some foreigners' ears, especially when said behind our backs or on TV or in the newspapers even.

Status Quo Forever Michael Turton 2009

And, overborne by his naughtiness, I purpose to break his ill-sounding arrows and his bow in his very sight.

The Argonautica 2008

Only my son uses ill-sounding to me constructions.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blogging as a Constraint on Parenting Options: 2007

And what shall we have to oppose against these ill-sounding sentences of the poets. —

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

MANKIND being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance: the distinctions of rich and poor may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.

Common Sense 2002

Sound comes among the first considerations because the ill-sounding manuscript is instantly recognizable.

The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000

Sound comes among the first considerations because the ill-sounding manuscript is instantly recognizable.

The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000

Sound comes among the first considerations because the ill-sounding manuscript is instantly recognizable.

The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000

The girl had been foolish, allowing herself to be influenced by the man's red hair and ill-sounding name -- not knowing a real pearl when she saw it.

Ayala's Angel 1993

Mrs. Zwicker was indulging in a tirade against the pleasure resorts and the ill-sounding names of places in the environs of Berlin, when the postman came.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various