unmelodious

And still he sat signing the cards, only dimly aware of the commotion outside when he lifted the window to clear the room of his cigarette smoke -- chaotic Christmas noise, which sometimes resolved itself into a sort of syncopation, as when simple unmelodious people sang.

Beard 2010

The wide world is wrapped in stories of those transformed into swans, with their more-true-than-human loves and their raw unmelodious voices.

it's time to see the world. it's time to kiss the girl. avocadovpx 2007

The young man looked first at his master, then up to the arched roof of the hall, then drank off the horn of ale, or wine, which stood beside him, and with a rough, yet not unmelodious voice, sung the following ditty to the ancient air of “Blue bonnets over the Border.”

The Monastery 2008

Saint Wendelin the Shepherd, in a strain so discordant, as startled every bird from every bush by which they passed There was never a more unmelodious melody, whether sacred or profane, than that under protection of which the elder Philipson thus conferred with his son.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

It was a rough and unmelodious tongue, a string of rattling, guttural noises, and there seemed to be two speakers, one with a slightly lower, slower voice than the other.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

The completion of the preparations for my breakfast, by relieving the fire, gave her such extreme joy that she laughed aloud — and a very unmelodious laugh she had, I must say.

David Copperfield 2007

The bells of the churches had done their worst in the way of clanging among the unmelodious echoes of the streets, and the lighted windows of the churches had ceased to be yellow in the grey dusk, and had died out opaque black.

Little Dorrit 2007

It was a rough and unmelodious tongue, a string of rattling, guttural noises, and there seemed to be two speakers, one with a slightly lower, slower voice than the other.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

What can a rap trio do with a lengthy and unmelodious and boyishly irate folk classic?

Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Chorus of Inventive Covers 2006

The bell that clears the flying stage became a loud unmelodious clanging.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006