Unmusical

QUOTATION: A name unmusical to the Volscians’ ears, ❋ Unknown (1919)

The contrast within the Scripture of the musical and the unmusical is a very marked one. ❋ Unknown (1912)

I'm not a very good singer and I am not completely "unmusical," but I am close. ❋ Greg Archer (2011)

Dismissing what you don't like as being somehow bad for music or "unmusical" whatever the hell that means is unbelievably petty and pointless. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It owes its origin to a bygone custom of the town, of serenading widows on the evening of their second marriage, with drums, trumpets, kettles, and every kind of unmusical instrument that could be pressed into the service of the uproarious ceremony. ❋ Various (N/A)

The gradations, too, are here quite as great as in mathematics or pictorial art, and the special faculty of the great musical composer must be reckoned many hundreds or perhaps thousands of times greater than that of the ordinary "unmusical" person above referred to. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

Indeed, there was no dancing in the early part of the evening; it was rather a musical company, and Betty's favourite amusement was often interrupted; for the music was too good, and the people present too well-bred, to allow of that jumble of sounds musical and unmusical which is so distressing, and alas! not so rare. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

In a spontaneous competition for music directors present at the awards, Javed Akhtar gave them an 'unmusical' verse to compose on IPL and the general elections. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anything that can allow those that feel "unmusical" to create interesting new sounds and pieces is a good thing-I've seen far too many students balk at the keyboard or other traditional instruments, since they ❋ Unknown (2008)

Our indebtedness, whether we like it or not, extends to, among other things: the fetishizing of visual detail; the inverted relation between background and foreground detail (or habitual and dynamic detail); the sacralization of art; the privileging of the music of style over the recalcitrance of 'unmusical' subject matter (Flaubert's famous desire to write a book about nothing); the agonizing over aesthetic labor—all this looks pretty new, and different in many ways from Balzac's great achievements and solutions, not least because these new Flaubertian anxieties cannot be solutions. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)

While you, Hollywood, have been cranking out bad comedies, opera has been cranking out new productions that will wow even the unmusical. ❋ Elisabeth Braw (2011)

They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music. ❋ Karl Shaw (2011)

There are no rugs or curtains or decorative fabric of any kind in the lodge, nothing to absorb sound, and so every boot step and every voice bounces all over the room, creating an unmusical reverberation that will eventually give me a headache. ❋ Lisa Genova (2011)

You're right about your voice being rough and a bit unmusical, but oh, how it works here. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

"[Jessica] was unmused by [the celebrity] performances on [Dancing with the Stars]" ❋ JessNJessica (2010)

"Man, [that dude] didn't pay me for that [gig] and now he won't answer my calls." "[Oh that's] so unmusical." ❋ Banana Quiet (2022)