The phrase 'awful voice' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a voice that is unpleasant, grating, or unpleasant to listen to. For example, "She sang with an awful voice that made everyone cringe."
There was this awful voice".
No, I have the world's most awful voice.
Plus Molesworth was played by Imelda Staunton, who chose the most awful voice to do so, like a screeching Terry "My Bruvver" Scott.
Near the beginning of the final night of the Durutti Column's 70-minute international festival tribute to Tony Wilson, A Paean to Wilson, guitarist Vini Reilly announced that he wouldn't be singing: "So you won't have to put up with my awful voice and schoolboy lyrics".
Her well-known video installation An Entertainment from 1990 has scenes from Punch and Judy shows roaring round the walls: garish colour, the awful voice of Mr Punch, the terrible violence, the hurdy-gurdy music, all shot and projected in smeary low-resolution video that would be almost unthinkable now.
We are mentally complaining about our children - "Why does he use that whiny awful voice?".
Each night that their awful voices echo to us over the marble ruins, the small flickers of hope in our hearts will wither and die.
Simple acts like getting up and cleaning the blood off their bodies become monstrosities of the narrator's imagination, incurring flashing descriptions of the death dreams that she feels and awful voices that she hears.
A fearsome voice then deep beneath the ground Groaned in response to that first awful sound.
Isn't that awful?" Her voice turned high-pitched, a little girl's voice.
Ann, with her awful, honking voice (she really is hard to listen to), was more of an elderly goose.
