unmelodiously

Kinnison studied the thing briefly, whistling unmelodiously through his teeth.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

They approached the rest singing in chorus, not unmelodiously, but with very little variation in notes.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

The birds, exhilarated by the sparkle in the air, sang with a rollicking abandonment quite contagious: the very kids and goats on the crags above the road caught the infection and frisked about, tinkling their bells and joining most unmelodiously in the song; while Barney, crossing the creek upon a flatboat, lifted up a tuneful voice in the chorus.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

I could hear the rain viciously swishing against the window-panes and gurgling unmelodiously through the gutters and from the pipes, but She whom I desired came not to keep me company.

Drolls From Shadowland

It was so precisely the tone of a stage clock -- high and pretentious, and with a disturbing suggestion of being unmelodiously flawed.

The Jervaise Comedy 1910

Rowdy was sprawled ungracefully upon somebody's bunk -- he neither knew nor cared whose -- and he was snoring unmelodiously, and not dreaming a thing; for when a cow-puncher has nothing in particular to do, he sleeps to atone for the weary hours when he must be very wide-awake.

Rowdy of the Cross L B. M. Bower 1905

He lolled at his ease, humming, not unmelodiously, snatches of a rude song, and fingering a pack of cards.

Peter Pan 1898

He lolled at his ease, humming, not unmelodiously, snatches of a rude song, and fingering a pack of cards.

Peter and Wendy F. D. [Illustrator] Bedford 1898

When their purchases were made, they went back to the inn together and ate some dinner; by which time the Hottentot driver of the cart began to tune up lustily, but unmelodiously, on a bugle to inform intending passengers that it was time to start.

Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890

He laughed unmelodiously, and then there was a long silence.

The Emancipated George Gissing 1880