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off-key

 adjective
     
Related topics: Music
off-key
APM music that is off-key sounds unpleasant because it is played slightly above or below the correct pitch [↪ in tune]:
The band sounded slightly off-key.
—off-key adverb:
Someone upstairs was singing off-key.
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