off-key
Example Sentences
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On the love song “Easy,” she sounds creaky and weathered, flittering off-key.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
He and his comrades were often forced to sing Soviet songs and were punished if they didn't sing "loud enough or sang off-key".
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
After Hegseth gave us his version of news headlines, he performed a brief off-key song and dance before skating out of the room having accomplished little and settling nothing.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
Interspersed with footage of Grande and Erivo were clips of Ludacris, Rob Gronkowski, Shaquille O’Neal, Gayle King, Ken Jeong, Heidi Klum and Khloe Kardashian submitting tounge-in-cheek “audition” tapes, many with off-key singing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
“I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay,” sang Laney, off-key and very loud.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
