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- adjective Having no
rhythm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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From upstairs, they could hear the rough arhythmic sounds of Billy's snores.
Baby Games Chelsea White 2010
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Charles had just formulated the intention of running for his life, when he heard a gigantic but utterly arhythmic drumroll and the boy also collapsed, burbling red into the dust.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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The band has a rhythm section of drums and bass which often provides totally arhythmic patterns to work within without?
Avant-garde icon Captain Beefheart passes away Click Track 2010
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But, in fact, he was remembering the arhythmic drumroll and the red burbles, and he became so agitated he had to get up from the bed.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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However last night while I was sitting on the shower floor she got an evil grin on her face and starting dancing around and shouting some weird arhythmic guttural chant.
phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2008
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In his hands he carried two sticks" Father Sticks, they were called" which he beat against the tree in a compelling, arhythmic pattern all the while he climbed.
Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986
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Nicholas touched him, felt the minute vibration in his torso, arhythmic, fluttery, abnormal.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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Yet what if history is not cyclical and slow-moving but arhythmic, at times almost stationary, but also capable of accelerating suddenly, like a sports car?
CDR Salamander 2010
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The stuff I've seen has been belovedly arhythmic, grimy and noisy.
Charlottesville Blogs James 2010
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In a multi-racial, multi-cultural society such as our own it seems anachronistic and discriminatory to make value judgments about rhythmic (or arhythmic) movements.
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