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"I especially began to hate their sound, which was not beating wings - how could I have ever thought it was? - but a lot of uneuphonious honks," she writes.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2012

In fact, that is how it began life in 1891, saddled with the uneuphonious name of Throop University.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only specks in my sun were, that the American islands were made more beautiful by their owners than our own; and that uneuphonious names had been given to some of these charming islets.

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg

The cabin is a well-built two-story structure, its uneuphonious but fitting name having been given it because its outer walls are formed of bark-covered slabs.

From Our Friend John Burroughs by Barrus, Clara

They sailed along the northern shores of Nova Scotia, entered Mines Channel, and anchored off Cape Fendu, now Anglicised into the uneuphonious name of Cape Split.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)