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What does off-key mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word off-key? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (music) pitched inaccurately either above or below the correct note
  2. (by extension) not harmonious, or out of accord
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Then suddenly, in a slightly hoarse and off-key voice, he sang the lullaby that Mom used to sing to me.
She bade me goodnight and walked away, swaying only slightly, and humming an off-key tune under her breath.
If the background music was distinctly off-key, so too were far too many aspects of the meal.
Why are the gospel tunes in the soundtrack so annoyingly off-key and out of synch?
He multi-tracks the vocals on this song and the off-key harmonics of his offbeat voice work brilliantly.
With that he turned up the radio to an old eighties rock song, and we started our off-key duet in very loud voices.

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