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"name": "Music",
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"Pitched inaccurately either above or below the correct note."
],
"id": "en-off-key-en-adj-LhTbvycM",
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"(music) Pitched inaccurately either above or below the correct note."
],
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"word": "out of tune"
}
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"music"
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"Not harmonious, or out of accord."
],
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"(by extension) Not harmonious, or out of accord."
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"ref": "1937, “They Can't Take That Away from Me”, Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music)",
"text": "The way your smile just beams / The way you sing off-key / The way you haunt my dreams / No, no—they can't take that away from me",
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"With inaccurate pitch."
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"(music) Pitched inaccurately either above or below the correct note."
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"(by extension) Not harmonious, or out of accord."
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"ref": "1937, “They Can't Take That Away from Me”, Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music)",
"text": "The way your smile just beams / The way you sing off-key / The way you haunt my dreams / No, no—they can't take that away from me",
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"With inaccurate pitch."
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