unmelodiously
IPA: ʌnmʌɫˈoʊdiʌsɫi
adverb
- In an unmelodious manner.
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Examples of "unmelodiously" in Sentences
- He laughed unmelodiously, and then there was a long silence.
- Kinnison studied the thing briefly, whistling unmelodiously through his teeth.
- They approached the rest singing in chorus, not unmelodiously, but with very little variation in notes.
- He lolled at his ease, humming, not unmelodiously, snatches of a rude song, and fingering a pack of cards.
- It was so precisely the tone of a stage clock -- high and pretentious, and with a disturbing suggestion of being unmelodiously flawed.
- I could hear the rain viciously swishing against the window-panes and gurgling unmelodiously through the gutters and from the pipes, but She whom I desired came not to keep me company.
- When their purchases were made, they went back to the inn together and ate some dinner; by which time the Hottentot driver of the cart began to tune up lustily, but unmelodiously, on a bugle to inform intending passengers that it was time to start.
- Rowdy was sprawled ungracefully upon somebody's bunk -- he neither knew nor cared whose -- and he was snoring unmelodiously, and not dreaming a thing; for when a cow-puncher has nothing in particular to do, he sleeps to atone for the weary hours when he must be very wide-awake.
- The birds, exhilarated by the sparkle in the air, sang with a rollicking abandonment quite contagious: the very kids and goats on the crags above the road caught the infection and frisked about, tinkling their bells and joining most unmelodiously in the song; while Barney, crossing the creek upon a flatboat, lifted up a tuneful voice in the chorus.
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