unmusical

An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger.

But three short unmusical Saxon words, yet it was as though a mystical strain of music had passed through the wood.

But can the musician by his art make men unmusical?

Sorrow and misfortune overtake the legislature that still from year to year permits Tahoe to retain its unmusical cognomen!

Sikes proceeded to drink brandy at a furious rate, and to flourish the crowbar in an alarming manner; yelling forth, at the same time, most unmusical snatches of song, mingled with wild execrations.

He roared out the catch in a harsh, unmusical voice, and ended with a shout of laughter.

we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

For an up-to-date definition of tanager, we turned to the online Unabridged Merriam-Webster which defines it thus: "any of numerous American passerine birds (family Thraupidae) having brightly colored males, being mainly unmusical, and chiefly inhabiting woodlands."

Unfortunately, poet Terry Blackhawk recites her wonderful text in a stiff, wooden fashion that feels very unmusical and emotionally unpersuasive.

Martin Swales's chapter, "Reflectivity, Music and the Modern Condition: Thoughts on Goethe's Faust," continues Bodley's line of inquiry, about the piece as a fundamentally musical work in the vein of musical theater, by exploring the role of an unmusical protagonist, Faust.