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Share, an illustrator with a passion for hand-lettering, began creating gorgeous poster-style depictions of the parks overlaid with the discordant words of unimpressed reviewers and posting them on Instagram.

It’s a cruel possibility that demonstrates the odd and discordant time from which we are starting to escape.

The composition is less discordant, with fewer dynamic shifts, than Reid’s best-known work, “Prism,” an opera that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.

The discordant figures, combined with the dearth of publicly available data, may make it more difficult for the company to build public confidence in its doses.

From Fortune

It appealed to my musical sense, because it was done in a harmonious way — it was not discordant.

Crime,  fiscal recklessness, and homelessness are stirring like discordant strains of music.

But, like a song whose discordant chords flow into a harmonious chorus, the flavors united, almost by magic.

No doubt Romney was sincere in wanting to help the homeless woman, but it sounded a discordant note.

This angry discordant debate makes it seem as if we could rectify this problem just by electing the right people.

But people now had enough of a sense of Obama to know that the statement was discordant with his whole approach and demeanor.

The voices of Edna's disbanding guests jarred like a discordant note upon the quiet harmony of the night.

During all this time they howl continually in a most discordant manner, and make the most hideous faces.

"I returned day before yesterday," he answered, while he leaned his arm on the keys, bringing forth a crash of discordant sound.

Its discordant clashes sweep upward in one harmonious tone that blends with the music of other worlds—to complete God's orchestra.

We have seen the clashing reports of Buddha, the following reports of the son of Mary are equally discordant.

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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to discordant, such as: cacophonous, clashing, dissonant, divergent, jarring, and strident.

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

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