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unmelodious

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Adj.1.unmelodiousunmelodious - not having a musical sound or pleasing tune
2.unmelodiousunmelodious - lacking melody                      
melodic, melodious, musical - containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark"


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The bells of the churches had done their worst in the way of clanging among the unmelodious echoes of the streets, and the lighted windows of the churches had ceased to be yellow in the grey dusk, and had died out opaque black.
A big four-by-five blackboard hung in the cabin, and Harvey never understood the need of it till, after some blinding thick days, they heard the unmelodious tooting of a foot-power fog-horn - a machine whose note is as that of a consumptive elephant.
To a present-day reader the verse sounds crude, the more so because of the harshly consonantal character of the Anglo-Saxon language; and in comparison with modern poetry it is undoubtedly unmelodious.
 
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