What's the difference between tuneless and unmelodious?
Tuneless
Definition:
(a.) Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.
(a.) Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.
(a.) Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Latvia Intars Busulis – Probka Watch this while you can, because there's a fair chance that this rather incoherent and singularly tuneless affair won't make it to Saturday's final.
(2) If it wasn't Marlon unconscious in a rapidly flooding cellar, it was David weeping over Alicia's body, trying to keep her conscious with a tuneless rendition of 2 Become 1 that made the other hostages wish 1 would hurry up and become 0.
(3) For some reason, I can also vividly recall seeing an import single featuring Malcolm McLaren singing You Need Hands: presumably some lunatic at a continental record label had looked at the soundtrack of the Sex Pistols' film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and concluded that the track with most commercial potential was the one that featured their manager tunelessly bellowing his way through the old Max Bygraves number.
(4) Its ghastly victims shrill and croon tunelessly from dawn until dusk.
(5) With his throaty and tuneless voice, Sanchez was never a great singer his real talent was as a lyricist.