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Tuneless  adj.  
1.
Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. " Thy tuneless serenade." "How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire!"
2.
Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.
3.
Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. (R.)





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"Tuneless" Quotes from Famous Books



... performing a wriggling dance upon the square carpet occupying the centre of the floor, accompanied by a Nubian boy who twanged upon a guitar, and by most of the assembled company, who clapped their hands to the music or droned a low, tuneless dirge. ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... past midday when Kitty woke. She heard a tuneless voice in the kitchen lifted up in ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... a sprinkling of the general public, whose time apparently hangs heavily on their hands. In a Stage-box is the Author herself, with a sycophantic Companion. A murky gloom pervades the Auditorium; a scratch orchestra is playing a lame and tuneless Schottische for the second time, to compensate for a little delay of fifteen minutes between the first and second Tableaux in the Second Act. The orchestra ceases, and a Checktaker at the Pit door whistles "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!" Some ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 • Various
... bewildered—almost stunned—by the strangeness of the sound; then, as he comprehended its meaning, he listened intently and his heart began to throb. He listened for Madame de Cintre's voice, and in the very heart of the tuneless harmony he imagined he made it out. (We are obliged to believe that he was wrong, inasmuch as she had obviously not yet had time to become a member of the invisible sisterhood.) The chant kept on, mechanical and monotonous, with dismal repetitions ...
— The American • Henry James
... table under the quiet trees the first part of the waltz movement of Weber's "Invitation" sounded out through the upper window. The brilliant tuneless passages bounding singly up the piano, flowing down entwined, were shaped by ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson


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