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This was also a time when the medical profession widely believed that disease was "unrhythmical" while health was "rhythmical".

From The Guardian • May 22, 2013

W. B. Yeats found Eliot's poems flat, unrhythmical, colorless, "working without apparent imagination."

From Time Magazine Archive

In poetry another element enters in to interfere with the ideal rhythm of music, and that is what Mr. More has called "the normal unrhythmical enunciation of the language."

From A Biography of Sidney Lanier by Mims, Edwin

He began merrily, and in no time had us both laughing; I think the first air which he tortured to fit his unrhymed and unrhythmical words belonged once to Mozart, but I am not sure.

From We Three by Hutt, Henry

To teach a person to read prose well, even in his own language, is difficult, partly because he has seldom heard prose well read, though he is constantly hearing prose around him, intonated, but unrhythmical.

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen