disharmonic

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

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2014

Vöchting distinguishes as harmonic or disharmonic the modes of union between twig and stem, according to whether or no they reach the formation of functional unity.

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 a very few minutes, in the case of disharmonic kinds of blood, the red corpuscles degenerate, and the hæmoglobin, becoming dissolved in the blood-plasma, soon appears in the urine.

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

Nature brooks no delay, and the disharmonic organism must attune itself or perish.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop