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unwhistleable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + whistleable.

Meanings

1. Not whistleable.
   • A dull movie that is also tasteless, with a drunk scene, a seduction scene, Reynolds shaking her behind while Crosby and a nun watch, plus several songs that are unhummable, unwhistleable, and unmemorable. 1987, Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross, The Motion Picture Guide, volume 7, page 2753:
   • I am supremely confident that when he and I are no longer around to argue the point, the unsingable and unwhistleable first movement of Beethoven's Ninth still will be. 1967, Hi Fi/stereo Review, volume 19, page 14:

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