untuneful

The mullah's voice, not untuneful was rousing all the valley echoes in the call to prayer.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

Do you not suffer, when people accost you in a stammering or hesitating manner, in an untuneful voice, with false accents and cadences; puzzling and blundering through solecisms, barbarisms, and vulgarisms; misplacing even their bad words, and inverting all method?

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Harsh and untuneful are the notes of love, Unless my Julia strikes the key, Her hand alone can touch the part, Whose dulcet movement charms the heart, And governs all the man with sympathetick sway.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Harsh and untuneful are the notes of love, Unless my Julia strikes the key, Her hand alone can touch the part, Whose dulcet movement charms the heart, And governs all the man with sympathetick sway.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

From these untuneful utterances we gladly turn to her prose.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

A howl of untuneful applause rose from under the trees.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

These were sung, of course, slowly, badly and sentimentally, the harmonium screaming in amazing discords, and the deep and untuneful voices of some members of the congregation drowning the ladies and placing a general discord upon everything.

The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912

The sound of Nick's cheery, untuneful humming seemed to invest all things with a more normal and wholesome aspect.

The Keeper of the Door 1910

The mullah's voice, not untuneful was rousing all the valley echoes in the call to prayer.

King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909

Then, with a sudden recurrence of the untuneful note:

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 1908