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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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They know what mood I am in from the music that I play on the radio and the off-key, wrong lyrics that I belt out.
Add off-key electronic music, and you begin to have some idea of how annoying this is.
Then suddenly, in a slightly hoarse and off-key voice, he sang the lullaby that Mom used to sing to me.
A few stand watching a brave soul with a karaoke machine belt out an off-key tune.
Why are the gospel tunes in the soundtrack so annoyingly off-key and out of synch?
But we sang along anyway, and there were no off-key notes or minor chords, not even from Mama, who quite simply could not carry a tune.

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