Definition of "unlistenable" []

• Being such that listening with comfort or pleasure is impossible: an unlistenable operatic solo; an unlistenable diatribe. (adjective)

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• "His radio show has devolved into something borderlining on unlistenable, which is too bad because, at the beginning, it had promise."
• "And "unlistenable" is what I thought about the rest of the album when I first put it in my ears and then hid it under my bed from my parents."
• "So it might be more a matter of identifying the particular kinds of unfavourable adjective that are most prone to subsequent reconsideration - "unlistenable" certainly springs to mind, perhaps because the gauntlet it throws down is so easy to pick up - and learning to keep an eye out for them."