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Off-key   /ɔf-ki/   Listen
Off-key

adjective
1.
Inaccurate in pitch.  Synonyms: false, sour.  "Her singing was off key"






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"Off-key" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Kid Next Door, although he had come four months ago. But she knew he wasn't a grouch, because he alternately whistled and sang off-key tenor while dressing in the morning. She had also discovered that his bed must run along the same wall against which her bed was pushed. Gertie told herself that there was something almost immodest about being able to hear him breathing as he ...
— Buttered Side Down • Edna Ferber

... off-key," went on the hospital steward, with a professional air. "Not much; still, you'd better have ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines - or, Following the Flag against the Moros • H. Irving Hancock



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