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  • adjective Not danceable.

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Examples

  • "Footwurk Homicide," with its fusillade of taunts, is more violent than any dance could be, and "Fade da Black Trak" sounds virtually undanceable, which is exactly the point.

    NYT > Home Page By JON CARAMANICA 2010

  • "Footwurk Homicide," with its fusillade of taunts, is more violent than any dance could be, and "Fade da Black Trak" sounds virtually undanceable, which is exactly the point.

    NYT > Home Page By JON CARAMANICA 2010

  • It's pretty undanceable which is okay because drunks can't dance anyway.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2004

  • Seems like everyone is talking about the nerve of MGMT, who made 40,000 people stand through material from their good but undanceable new album before they got to their electro-pop hits; Phoenix's gig, which drew more fans than Pavement and made guys in their 30s question the meaning of music for all eternity; and collaborations between Beyonce/Jay-Z and Thom Yorke/Flea.

    Carrie Underwood takes the big award at ACM; Coachella 2010 wraps up 2010

  • Tim and me would be out on the floor flailing away as best we could to Bob's music which was completely undanceable and indecipherable.

    Sometimes You Just Have to Get Out of the Car 2009

  • * Last night we were at a big party where the DJ went way off course, first skipping around a few not-too-danceable hip-hop songs before going into a 25-minute streak of only Latin music, follwed by AC/DC's "Thunderstruck", followed by one of my least favorite songs from high school, the completely undanceable Counting Crows with "Mr. Jones".

    Tidbits for the weekend C N Heidelberg 2009

  • * Last night we were at a big party where the DJ went way off course, first skipping around a few not-too-danceable hip-hop songs before going into a 25-minute streak of only Latin music, follwed by AC/DC's "Thunderstruck", followed by one of my least favorite songs from high school, the completely undanceable Counting Crows with "Mr. Jones".

    Archive 2009-07-01 C N Heidelberg 2009

  • Combining the undanceable beats of dubstep with the quivering vocals of torch song, the Londoner somehow found himself ranked second in the

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • But the slick restaurant wasn't attracting the kind of crowd that appreciated loud, dark, undanceable music, and after a few months the relationship soured.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • But the slick restaurant wasn't attracting the kind of crowd that appreciated loud, dark, undanceable music, and after a few months the relationship soured.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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