ill-sounding

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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)

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

The girl had been foolish, allowing herself to be influenced by the man's red hair and ill-sounding name,—not knowing a real pearl when she saw it.

From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony

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

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