be discordant
Example Sentences
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“I don’t know if during other occasions or places there might be discordant voices from fundamentalists,” said the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
From Time ● Jan. 12, 2015
The timbres can be pretty, like the guitar picking and churchy organ that open “Hounds,” or they can be discordant.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2011
“I think it would be discordant to the feeling of the body politic.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2010
If this use of the word be discordant to the ear of the reader, the term morbid voluntary motions, or motions in consequence of aversion, may be substituted in its stead.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
I believe it is an observation of Dr. Burney, in his History of Handel's Commemoration, that no sound proceeding from a great multitude can be discordant.
From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes
