unlistenable
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of unlistenable
Example Sentences
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While not unlistenable by any means, “What Time Is It” is definitely the weakest opening number of the “High School Musical” trilogy.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2022
“Bombón,” featuring Lil Jon and the dembow visionary El Alfa, is virtually unlistenable — college spring-break music, complete with “Yeah!” ad-libs from an era long gone.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022
A bold Sharpie’d X drawn across the insert of an octet by George Enescu brands it unlistenable, and the same hand enthusiastically stars and circles a “Grand Quartet for Flutes” by Harvey Sollberger.
From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021
The median halftime show at a football game is a marching band, a genre of performance in which the spectacle is so much more important than the music that the music is entirely unlistenable.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2021
A decade and a half later, what had been a motley collection of what Mr Hammersley calls "mostly unlistenable" MP3 recordings has become a global industry.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2019
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