untuneful

IPA: ʌntunfʌɫ

Examples of "untuneful" in Sentences

Then, with a sudden recurrence of the untuneful note:
A howl of untuneful applause rose from under the trees.
From these untuneful utterances we gladly turn to her prose.
The mullah's voice, not untuneful was rousing all the valley echoes in the call to prayer.
The sound of Nick's cheery, untuneful humming seemed to invest all things with a more normal and wholesome aspect.
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.
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.
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?