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ill-sounding
adjective as in cacophonous
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Marry, we must not play or riot too much with them, as in Paronomasies; nor use too swelling or ill-sounding words!
This misapprehension, indeed, had led them into using malformed and ill-sounding words in their verses.
His style is boisterous and rough-hewn; his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill sounding.
More than ten men expiated with their lives some satirical glance at him, or some ill-sounding word uttered in his presence.
Let us, however, avoid wounding unnecessarily Russian sensibilities by the use of the ill-sounding word.
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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ill-sounding, such as: discordant, noisy, raucous, clinking, disharmonic, and dissonant.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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