ill-sounding

Updated: June 27, 2025

Let us, however, avoid wounding unnecessarily Russian sensibilities by the use of the ill-sounding word. We may call the class in question "domestics" remembering, of course, that they were not quite domestic servants in the ordinary sense.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia

Upon my word, you have a most astonishing bust; a genuine Rubens." Madame Gobillot was an austere woman, though an innkeeper, and watched over her daughter with particular care, lest any ill-sounding or insiduous expression should reach her child's ear. Considering the company which frequented the house, the task was not easy.

Charles de Bernard - Gerfaut — Complete