Then something began to play the slightly off-pitch tune of the song, Sold Me.
I sit down and spend most of the performance trying to physically restrain my cringes at off-pitch notes and jittery timing.
The music sounds off-pitch (which, of course, it is) and sour to my ears.
There were some forgotten words, off-pitch notes and irregularities in rhythm, but the Lutherans refrained from showing any dismay.
She then followed this up with an air of Schubert's, performed in full diva mode, complete with feather boa but, quite deliberately yet excrutiatingly, just off-pitch.
Definition of off-pitch in US English:
off-pitch
adjective
Music
Not of the correct pitch.
〔乐〕走调的
off-pitch singing
Example sentencesExamples
There were some forgotten words, off-pitch notes and irregularities in rhythm, but the Lutherans refrained from showing any dismay.
I sit down and spend most of the performance trying to physically restrain my cringes at off-pitch notes and jittery timing.
She then followed this up with an air of Schubert's, performed in full diva mode, complete with feather boa but, quite deliberately yet excrutiatingly, just off-pitch.
Then something began to play the slightly off-pitch tune of the song, Sold Me.
The music sounds off-pitch (which, of course, it is) and sour to my ears.