disharmonic

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2014

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

If they succeed in the end to do what they wished for, soon their disharmonic structure will make them build other action models which are not suitable to external reality and the cycle restarts.

From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Moisa, Dorin Teodor

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

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