unmelodious

1 On the other side of the Atlantic, the little boys used not to celebrate Christmas by blowing unmelodious horns.

2 "There goes Ellen Ember, crazy again," we said, when we heard that cry of hers, not unmelodious nor loud, echoing along Friendship streets.

3 "At the present moment she is very busily employed trying to train the most unmelodious choir in Great Britain," replied Miss Mills.

4 Overhead, Canada geese announce their presence with unmelodious honking.

5 You are right, you are right," the Countess rejoined, in her emphatic yet not unmelodious Russian-German, "but this time you are in some measure to blame for his folly.

6 A long-drawn and not entirely unmelodious snore proclaimed that Colonel Adams's long recital had somewhat wearied the civilian, who was not "in society."

7 The libretto is rather poor, the rhymes unmelodious and uneven; nevertheless the musical effect is deep and lasting; the breath of a master-genius has brought it to life.

8 The somewhat unmelodious, if extremely powerful, vocalization of the village choir became quiet and prayerful under his tuition.

9 It responded to each letter and number with a ringing note of different pitch that played a short unmelodious tune.

10 Miss Barrett, in our opinion, has selected a very bad, dislocated, and unmelodious metre for the story of Lady Geraldine's courtship.

11 Stella at once went to the piano in the day-nursery and began to play her most unmelodious tune.

12 The honk-honk rang out in the forest like a cry for help, 198 and the leopard shivered where he crouched as if this unmelodious music jarred on his nerves.

13 It sounded not unmelodious upon the large waters.

14 If a person’s voice is pitched too high, is harsh and unmelodious, the remedy is by way of a process of forgetting.

15 It was nightfall when the litter-bearers reached the post, Hay's rejoicing mules braying unmelodious ecstasy at sight of their old stable.

16 From below the noise of the piano came up the staircase, unmelodious but rhythmical, and from the street on which the house faced an automobile was starting its engine, with a series of shot-like explosions.

17 That’s why, while the studios picked the stars, he chose the lived-in faces and unmelodious voices that define his work as much as the mesas of his westerns and the towering figure of John Wayne.

18 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.

19 The unmelodious call of a flicker in the pine-tree, and a towhee singing in the distance.

20 Most sounds emanating from the Emirates this season have been unmelodious but that will be music to the ears of Arsenal fans.

1 难听的

rough unmusical unsweet sandpapery squawky

2 不悦耳

immelodious rough discordant noteless unvocal scrannel tunelessly tunelessness

3 刺耳的

hard sharp dirty rugged metallic rude nasal jagged penetrating ragged grating brazen shrill strident hoarse discordant brassy raspy rasping unmusical earsplitting untuneful earpiercing inconsonant scrannel untunable harsh scratchy clean rough piercing grinding cracked abrasive ear-piercing acute raucous dissonant pierce

4 不悦耳的

immelodious rough discordant noteless unvocal scrannel unmusical tuneless untuneful