tuneless

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Recent Examples of tuneless Fletcher’s thrumming, didgeridoo voice—violently tuneless when singing and melodic in speech—is a counterpoint to Fliakos’s light, almost nasal timbre; Niall Cunningham and Andrew Maillet, as the President’s assistants, are their balancing male pair. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024 Winfrey’s musical reworking of The Color Purple is essentially tuneless and unpleasant. Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024 For the rest of the film Jenkins uses animation, vintage clips and a lot of interviews to re-create the whole Biz Markie experience: the raspy voice, the tuneless singing, and the love of anything kitschy, catchy and fun. Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023 That baggy, shambling gang of tuneless no-hopers swept along on the glassy-eyed tide of post-acid house euphoria? Jonathan Bernstein, SPIN, 7 June 2023 Rather, his is a voice singing freely in a tuneless land. Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019 The singer's timorous, tuneless falsetto convinced me to put in a bid, but somebody else won the auction for $113.61. Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 27 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tuneless
Adjective
  • The atmosphere is enhanced by the hand-in-hand elements of Damian Volpe’s heavy soundscape and Robin Carolan’s moody score, which ranges from symphonic grandeur to agitato strings, pipes and horns specific to the region at that time to queasy atonal groans.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Ives’s legendary status initially rested on his reputation as a maverick pioneer who supposedly had beaten Schoenberg in the race to the atonal pole.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The news, predictably, was unpleasant: the Olympic roster was about to leak, and Clark wasn’t on it.
    Sean Gregory, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Almost everyone is bitter, unpleasant, scheming, self-centered, manipulative or awful (or just plain crazy).
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Rufo should know this, at which point someone who caucuses with the right should be pleased to keep his own, frequently laudatory views (there’s much that’s disagreeable about DEI, ESG and other acronyms) separate from government force at all levels.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Some repel deer with a disagreeable taste, such as hot pepper.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Like, watched it all the way through from the shrill opening filled with obnoxious kids to the leadenly staged slapstick climax?
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Further down the road, another piper — just playing to play — is sending his shrill notes out into the night sky.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 5 July 2024

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“Tuneless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tuneless. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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