off-key
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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
Nobody wants to be subjected to one more triggering, off-key note of an Edwin Díaz dirge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
Amid all of this, responses from the administration were sometimes glaringly off-key.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
Sometimes de la O would join in, even though Stamey would rib him about how off-key he was.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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