ill-sounding

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Mrs. Zwicker was indulging in a tirade against the pleasure resorts and the ill-sounding names of places in the environs of Berlin, when the postman came.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various

At Bayonne, concerning a clerical epistle in which an ill-sounding phrase occurs, "the grand-vicar who drew it up is sent to Pignerol for ten years, and I think that the bishop is exiled."

From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Durand, John

The story which we are writing, and the great name of Cleopatra which appears in it, have prompted us to these reflections, so ill-sounding, doubtless, to modern ears.

From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile

Let us, however, avoid wounding unnecessarily Russian sensibilities by the use of the ill-sounding word.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir

The distorting of names occurs frequently enough not as a slip of the tongue, but as an attempt to give the name an ill-sounding or debasing character.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund