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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

A version of this review appears in print on February 22, 2014, on page C6 of the with the headline: Cacophony Amid the Cool Marble.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014

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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