Euphonious

"I see no objection to its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Guermantes set were addicted. ❋ Marcel Proust (1896)

Write yourself fully and always Harriet Beecher Stowe, which is a name euphonious, flowing, and full of meaning. ❋ Stowe, Charles Edward (1889)

Since the word euphonious is an adjective meaning melodious, to say an euphonious keeps you smart would make a musician laugh and a professor scratch his head. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“I see no objection to its being old,” the Princess answered dryly, “but whatever else it is it’s not euphonious,” she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the ❋ Unknown (2003)

The ancients thought of their _lives_ as woven on the loom of spiteful fates, whom they endeavored to humor by calling euphonious names. ❋ Unknown (1888)

"Don't you mean 'euphonious'?" asked Migwan with a smile. ❋ Unknown (1924)

In her euphonious name we find both her family's fantasies and their poverty. ❋ Claire Messud (2011)

I think that's a lot more euphonious than Gliese 581g. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Opinion -- raw, cruel, unguarded, outrageous, euphonious, cacophonous opinion -- is what is riding high. ❋ Simon Jenkins (2011)

But the "boy wonder" opted instead to use an original script: the generations-spanning biography of a powerful press-baron with political ambitions and the euphonious name of Charles Foster Kane. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)

 Then the two farts:  the gaseous squall the La-Z Boy kicked out as Father sat down after dinner and the little euphonious “boop” the TV would gasp as Father shut it down for the night. ❋ Michael Larkin (2010)

These experiences — each involving a serious, well-publicized breakdown of performance followed by a comprehensive reform of strategy — will guide me as I reform the MMS, which we recently renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (not the shortest or most euphonious name, I know, but one that better reflects the agency's core mission of ensuring safe and responsible energy production in federal waters). ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Anglo-Saxon names are not very euphonious," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are a striking number of groups in the city dedicated to music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque, some bearing euphonious names like Suspicious Cheese Lords (an all-male vocal group), Harmonious Blacksmith (the resident ensemble of Baltimore's An Die Musik), or Opera Lafayette, surely one of the few American companies devoted exclusively to Baroque opera. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

And, for the groom's parents -- Edward Mezvinsky and the lady with the euphonious, jump-rope-rhyme name of Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky -- such a daughter-in-law, like virtually no one has ever seen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

a [stream] of [fine], euphonious phrases ❋ ProgreesiveHerz (2015)

[Dude] [that guy] is Euphony ❋ Steven High (2008)