unresonant

A prosy "Mary Stuart" would seem to be a contradiction in terms, but Ms. McTeer, Ms. Walter and their supporting cast speak their unresonant lines as though Shakespeare himself had penned them, and the collective effect of their virtuoso performances goes a very long way toward ennobling Mr. Oswald's plain-Jane script.

Laugh and the World Cries With You 2009

She was sharing it with Caspar Goodwood, who stood looking at her, a few yards off, and whose footfall on the unresonant turf, as he came near, she had not heard.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

Her voice is muffled behind the green silk mask and has a peculiar timbre, thin and unresonant—the converse of nasal.

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

Her voice is muffled behind the green silk mask and has a peculiar timbre, thin and unresonant—the converse of nasal.

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

Her voice is muffled behind the green silk mask and has a peculiar timbre, thin and unresonant—the converse of nasal.

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

The passage was a great hemicylinder lined with the same rubbery gray plastic as the cages, so that footfalls were silent and spoken words weirdly unresonant.

Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

His tongue seemed to refuse him utterance; and this voice, -- this strange, hard, unresonant voice, -- whose voice was it?

Ramona 1921

All these indoor sounds were oddly diminished and unresonant under the open sky, just as the chatting, laughing flow of the voices, even though it rose at times to bursts of mirth which the children's shouts made noisy, never drowned out the sweet, secret talk of the brook to itself.

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

She was sharing it with Caspar Goodwood, who stood looking at her, a few feet off, and whose footfall, on the unresonant turf, as he came near, she had not heard.

Chapter LV 1917

He called for help, and his voice was thick and unresonant, like the voice of a drunken man.

Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914