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Who became an accomplished concert pianist before she tuned her ear to the more dissonant chords of international relations.

It was something more than harsh and dissonant, and it betrayed no lack of skill.

Dissonant music that might otherwise be found in a Kubrick film portend to the worst.

Benedict has made nice to Muslims since that dissonant Islam speech, praying at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul in 2006.

It produced comparatively little foundation tone and a powerful chord of harmonics, many of them dissonant.

No Russian, whose dissonant, consonant name Almost rattles to fragments the trumpet of fame?Postscript.

Christmas, too, closed, and the steeples no longer jangled forth a dissonant peal.

Practise dissonant chords until they please the ear in spite of their sharpness.

It was followed by shouts of dissonant laughter, unlike the cheering sounds of human mirth.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dissonant, such as: differing, discordant, incongruous, anomalous, at variance, and disagreeing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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