ill-sounding

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He delighted in a complete success, and grieved over any lapse from the fold of metrical virtue, over any ill-sounding rhyme or unhappy expression.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

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 owner closed the procession, with his wives, his daughters and sons, children-in-law and grand-children, serving men and maidens, all riding upon reindeer, and howling an ill-sounding Laplandish song.

From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)

With singular modesty of judgment, they thought invention and discovery ill-sounding names in religion.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane

And what shall we have to oppose against these ill-sounding sentences of the poets.—

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch