tunelessly

Examples of tuneless

tuneless
He bathed and tried to keep up his spirits by singing in his tuneless way, but it didn't help.
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Instead of which the insulted individual went into his corner again, and re-commenced playing his tuneless piano in the meekest possible manner.
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But the monotonous, tuneless sound seemed to go round, and round, and round inside her head.
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We loved her noble, musical tone, and yet we always enjoyed our father's tuneless roar.
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Never had a more tuneless voice been heard or one managed with less art.
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They have chanted a depressing psalm or two to the most tuneless of ancient ditties.
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It was a dismal service, with its dreary sermon and its tuneless hymns.
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Exactly thus had he often listened to it swishing through the crannies of high rocks, tuneless yet searching.
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In a cracked and tuneless voice he began humming a roundelay, evidently intended to express gaiety and contentment.
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She began to hum softly, to herself, as it were, some tuneless air.
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The only answer to the noise was a thin, tuneless whistle from the deck above them.
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Half an hour later she was standing by the spinet, absently touching the tuneless keys, when a voice from the window startled her.
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Another answered it; another took it up; and the melancholy baying wavered from roof to roof--a tuneless dirge.
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In addition, they had a brass band that played tuneless, wailing music nearly every night, to the accompaniment of the howling and barking of dogs.
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When the wrestlers left the arena, hidden drums rumbled--throbbed out a tuneless miserere.
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