jangling

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He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

After a 3-0 thrashing at Chelsea last week in the Champions League, followed by a shaky win over Alaves to claim pole position in La Liga, nerves were jangling among home fans.

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

As you walk past the shops on Sagunto Street, you’d be forgiven for thinking you hear your spurs jangling.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024

But nerves are jangling inside Labour because of what many see as unforced errors.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024

The resulting jangling, sparklingly dissonant sound, which is brittle, full of edgy attack and a kind of out-of-tune resonance, would have been - literally - unimaginable, even terrifying to audiences of the day.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall