William Wegman has forged a major career by striking consistently minor, even off-key notes in a number of media.

With the last note, a single off-key, two-toned note chimed through the air.

An off-key note chimed through the gray skies, followed by the sound of crystal shattering.

Pavel hit a particularly off-key note and Uhura glared down at him in annoyance.

This forced literary reference, which runs through the movie, is its one glaringly off-key note.

This funny novel, most successful in Curtis's absurd and playful moments, ends on a disturbing, off-key note.

There was not an off-key note in the entire dish.

Phagia was singing, some odd, irregular tune that slid up and down from one off-key note to another.

There were the slightly off-key notes and bad mixing that signal a live performance: I'm gonna bring you right back some day.

The three words were bland; they fell like off-key notes jangling along my nerves.