1984 vocabulary

In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning. Regularity of grammar was always sacrificed to it when it seemed necessary. And rightly so, since what was required, above all for political purposes, were short clipped words of unmistakable meaning which could be uttered rapidly and which roused the minimum of echoes in the speaker’s mind.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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"[...] I wouldn't call Mrs. Homer Pyle a euphonious name, but I strongly urge you to take it on. [...]"

P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.41 (1971)

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“Oh, but Cambremer is quite a good name; old, too,” protested the General.

“I see no objection to its being old,” the Princess answered dryly, “but whatever else it is it’s not euphonious,”

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way