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discordant
adjective as in not in harmony; conflicting
Example Sentences
When the gags arrive, they’re clumsy and desperate: a discordant vomit explosion, some shenanigans at a court house.
Over a pleasantly discordant score of dreamy electronic chords and twanging banjos, Matthew finds pencil marks charting his growth as a child while these parents fuss over their own new baby.
The inauguration falling on Martin Luther King Day was a cruel irony, a discordant note struck on a day meant to honor justice, equality, and freedom.
And back as the stadium-filling rock legends that we know them to be, as opposed to the enthusiastic, discordant high school band they have looked like for so much of the season.
"For him to then spend most of the spring and the early summer basically talking about how he's the most successful economic president in modern history, it was just so discordant," he said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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