singsong

1 They spoke in a singsong.

2 “Baby baby chicken,” Ugwu murmured, in the singsong way that always amused her.

3 The tone is airy: unassuming piano chords; a high, naïve voice; a singsong melody.

4 He spoke the name in a singsong manner, drawing out the syllables.

5 One must be equipped with pockets full of treats at all times to dispense along with a steady stream of singsong praise.

6 “I don’t really–” she starts to say but we hear a door close and a singsong daddy, daddy, daddy floating down the hall toward us.

7 “Okay!” the large flowy man from before singsongs, shocking me out of my embarrassment, forcing a scratched line across the whole audition form.

8 My mom guides Kareem’s parents into the living room, her voice brighter and more singsong than usual.

9 “No reason,” Audrey said in a singsong way that meant she absolutely had a reason.

10 The singsong reciting voices floated from inside the log schoolhouse.

11 Our parents and grandparents were taught with little singsong lessons, the way you’d teach a preschooler shapes and colors.

12 “Don’t mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go? “Shan’t say nothing if you don’t say please,” said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice.

13 Todd speaks very rapidly in a singsong cadence, suggesting that he does this several times a day.

14 Florida rapper 454 delivered evocative rhymes in an innocent singsong, but at speeds that spun the brain.

15 She welcomes us in the same singsong fashion every day of clubs.

16 Many Americans are more familiar with Cantonese’s singsong cadences than the more clipped tones of Mandarin.

17 Adina handed the bronzer to Miss Montana, who singsonged “Awesome!” and promised to share with her teammates as long as they didn’t all use the brush and get it bacterified, which would give them pimples.

18 “No one here but us,” her mother said, in a singsong voice, half-crooning.

19 “We could check out City College,” Isa said in a singsong voice as she took Laney’s coat off the coat hook and held it out to her.

20 He had altered his voice, I noticed, making it weak and quavery while he uttered his singsong plea: “Take pity on an orphan child, take pity...”

1 合唱

choral singalong

2 单调

dead-alive same waste flat quiet vegetable plain mechanic pedestrian tame blah prose bleak dreary monotonous monotone prosaic humdrum stodgy leaden unexciting unglamorous one-note monotonic toneless unrelieved unvaried prosy samey ticky-tacky saltless banausic heavy flatly vegetably wasteland drab monotony flatness platitude sameness vapidity inanimation creep monotonize mechanize even dull bald commonplace plodding subfusc tonelessly prosily dullness blankness pedestrianism prosiness dead tedium Pedestrianism without light and shade blank changeless inartificial dead-and-alive chime uniformity monopitch

3 平凡

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless humdrum second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden mundanely banally trivialism mediocrity platitude banality triviality mundanity commonness homeliness bathos stodginess prosiness trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat

4 自娱歌咏会

singalong

5 歌唱会

sing

6 平淡无味的

flashy innocuous featureless bland unideal

7 齐唱

unison singalong

8 无节奏的

arrhythmic

9 抑扬顿挫

lilting cadence

10 平淡无味

flashy innocuous featureless prosify bland unideal prosily amontillado

11 平凡的

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless humdrum second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden ten a penny two a penny old hat

12 单调的

dead-alive same waste flat quiet vegetable plain mechanic pedestrian tame blah prose bleak dreary monotonous monotone prosaic humdrum stodgy leaden unexciting unglamorous monotonic toneless unrelieved unvaried prosy samey ticky-tacky saltless banausic heavy even dull bald commonplace drab plodding subfusc dead without light and shade blank changeless inartificial dead-and-alive

13 抑扬顿挫的

lilting