ill-sounding

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.