ill-sounding

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I take back the ill-sounding word, with the remark, though, that cynicism seems to me a word invented by hypocrites. 

From Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Conrad, Joseph

There's a barbarous and improper word, an ill-sounding word; upon my honour, a word without dignity or merit and banishable from polite speech.

From Clementina by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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

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

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