Translation for "off-key" to spanish
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adjective
The humming was off-key and extremely jarring to the nerves.
Era un canturreo desafinado que destrozaba los nervios.
He was whistling a jaunty tune in a slightly off-key manner.
Estaba silbando una alegre tonada un poco desafinada.
The impact produced a sound like an off-key gong.
El impacto produjo un sonido como un batintín desafinado.
The off-key melody wasn't much louder than their voices.
La melodía desafinada no sonaba mucho más fuerte que sus voces.
Her voice was weak and off-key, but I recognized the melody.
Tenía una voz débil y desafinada, pero reconocí la melodía.
adverb
Three sailors, their uniforms filthy, were singing loudly off key to the amusement of pedestrians.
Tres marineros, con los uniformes sucios, cantaban en voz alta, desafinadamente, para diversión de los peatones.
Outside the window Fondero’s son had begun to whistle, loudly and off-key, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
—insistió Piñata. Por la ventana, el hijo de Fondero había empezado a silbar desafinadamente una canción.
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