ill-sounding
Example Sentences
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But when he communed with his son concerning the espousals, and informed him of his plans, the son thought it strange and ill-sounding, and cast it off, and left his father and went into exile.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by John of Damascus, Saint
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
“An ill-sounding list of names,” said Mr Tremayne quietly.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah
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
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
