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They possess the art (learned from the pulpit) of rounding an uneuphonious sentence by dwelling on a single syllable — of striking a balance in a top-heavy period by lengthening out a word into a melancholy quaver.

Lay Morals 2005

Note the distortion of his voice, which is uneuphonious even when undistorted.

The Norby Chronicles Asimov, Janet & Asimov, Isaac 1983

The name, by no means uneuphonious, is yet suggestive of associations far from attractive.

Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

Handicapped by a somewhat uneuphonious patronymic, MARY PICKFORD has established her rule without recourse to any of the disputable methods adopted by her predecessor.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30 Various

The cabin is a well-built two-story structure, its uneuphonious but fitting name having been given it because its outer walls are formed of bark-covered slabs.

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

Richard Curie, a tailor by trade, who, having enlisted in the army and risen to the rank of captain, changed his uneuphonious name to Monsieur l'Espérance, married a Mömpelgard butcher's daughter, and settled in her native town.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

"My dear Clara," he protested gently, "I never admitted I was such an undraped, uneuphonious, square-cornered word as that."

No. 13 Washington Square Leroy Scott 1902

The girl was somewhat too young for the work she was going to do, and considerably too inexperienced, but she had a kindergarten diploma in her pocket, and being an ardent follower of Froebel she thought a good many roses might blossom in the desert of Tar Flat, the rather uneuphonious name of the kingdom.

The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

I asked your mother, when we were left alone, if she had any objection to me other than my uneuphonious and suggestive surname.

Ladies-In-Waiting Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

People did not wait until ten o'clock for "functions" to begin; neither did they give them that uneuphonious name.

A Little Girl of Long Ago Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873