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cacophony

[kuh-kof-uh-nee] / kəˈkɒf ə ni /
NOUN
dissonance
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A product of an anarchic group called the Cacophony Society, SantaCon has come to be seen by many as an annoying pub crawl.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Cacophony filled the humid air: the mad squawking of parrots, the grunts of emus, the occasional roar of a lion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2024

The closing ceremony was entitled "Harmonious Cacophony" and involved both able-bodied actors and others with disabilities.

From Fox News • Sep. 5, 2021

But John Law, 57, an original member of San Francisco’s Cacophony Society, the group credited with the first SantaCon, is skeptical about what the event has become.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2015

Cacophony, ka-kof′ō-ni, n. a disagreeable sound: discord of sounds.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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