ill-sounding

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A fault in Dickens is that nearly all his names are rugged, uncouth, and ill-sounding, and seldom characteristic.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

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

At the ill-sounding place Ourigiague, just beyond, they were royally entertained.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 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

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