tunelessly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English

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"He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher[.]"
"After a pause that he spent whistling tunelessly under his breath, he said: “Hello, Miss Henry? […]”"
"Night descends moonlessly / Cops are humming tunelessly / Walking in a straight line / Cold pistol in the inner coat pocket"

Etymology tree English tuneless Middle English -ly English -ly English tunelessly From tuneless + -ly.

more tunelessly (comparative) most tunelessly (superlative)

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