Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not tuned; unmusical; unharmonious.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective The state of not having been tuned.
  • adjective Of or relating to a musical instrument that doesn't produce specific pitches, e.g. many drums and cymbals.

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Examples

  • Until you can show me, in the HIR text, where government buys our private insurance or forces doctors and nurses to work for the government I assume you havent read the text of the bill and are just another untuned piano playing a lobbyist script.

    Think Progress » Fox Politicizes Clinton’s Heart Surgery, Suggests He Wouldn’t Have Received Treatment Under Health Reform 2010

  • Drunken college students strum untuned strings and shout incoherent lyrics into flames of illegal campfires.

    Johnny Mercer's Pier Paula Ray 2010

  • Considerable skill was required to do this, however, and an untuned Model 70 trigger was a horror.

    The Model 70 Reborn 2009

  • Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair.

    In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere Dave McKenna 2011

  • Or of the serenades sung with a guitar which now lies mute, untuned.

    Watching Pablo Sleep 2008

  • A cycle of five settings of extracts from The Tempest, it clothes the disarmingly tonal vocal lines in shimmering textures from trios of flutes and cellos, along with three percussionists playing a variety of tuned and untuned wooden and metallic instruments.

    CBSO/Nelsons – review Andrew Clements 2010

  • Or of the serenades sung with a guitar which now lies mute, untuned.

    Watching Pablo Sleep 2008

  • In "Music for Midsummer's Eve," time is an "untuned harmonium/That Muzaks our nights and days."

    Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • The noise sounds like the white noise background of an untuned radio.

    Grinding grain doyle 2009

  • The noise sounds like the white noise background of an untuned radio.

    Archive 2009-02-01 doyle 2009

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