disharmonic

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Yet it’s also appropriate, a kind of disharmonic convergence.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2014

Voechting, experiments on grafting, 70; harmonic and disharmonic union, 70; on cells, 114, 116; on plasticity of plants, 117, 119; on grafting, 120.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

Each section of the wooden slabs gives forth a different note when struck, a penetrating, xylophonic, tone but devoid of the disagreeably metallic, disharmonic bysounds of that instrument.

From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot

In that dim continual journey she was like a disharmonic spirit traversing the air above where its body lies.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John

These disharmonic shadows flitting in the room made a stir like the rubbing of dry straw or the hum of bees among clover stalks.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John