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as in conflicting
not being in agreement or harmony
the inn bans young children because the owners believe that they are inharmonious with the quiet atmosphere other guests desire
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as in shrill
marked by or producing a harsh combination of sounds
a deliberately inharmonious piece of music in the modern idiom
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Recent Examples of inharmonious
Jesus proved over and over again the all-encompassing authority of God, which destroys all inharmonious conditions, including sin and disease.
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Thomas Mitchinson, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2025
Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.
—Washington Post, 24 July 2021
Thomas Mitchinson, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2025
Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.
—Washington Post, 24 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inharmonious
Adjective
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The case now appears headed for the Supreme Court, with conflicting rulings leaving employers uncertain whether the fee still applies today.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
11 June 2026
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Activists and school officials offered conflicting accounts of how the police raid unfolded, with administrators claiming that the protest had turned violent after prolonged efforts to end it peacefully—a characterization that student protesters strongly disputed.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
9 June 2026
Adjective
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The chaos is still an acceptable price to pay for Birney’s expertly offputting performance, a shrill mania that gets increasingly comic over time.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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Some cymbal hits came across as slightly shrill thanks to the high-mid emphasis.—
Christian de Looper,
PC Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
8 Dec. 2025
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Both teams sport inconsistent defenses that have been, at times, porous, while both Allen and Burrow hold upper-echelon passing abilities.—
Jacob Camenker,
USA Today,
7 Dec. 2025
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But recent research found that members of the Tsimane’, a native Amazonian society in Bolivia, rate consonant and dissonant chords as equally pleasurable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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A little past the halfway point, a heavy drumbeat crashes in and their voice distorts into screams and screeches, transforming the song from folk lament to dissonant protest.—
Nia Coats,
Pitchfork,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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This is a fundamentally pleasant book for unpleasant times, the kind of novel in which a car breaks down and that turns out to be exactly what should have happened.—
Jacob Brogan,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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The jar’s odor wasn’t totally unpleasant, says Pederson.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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This era of Jane Remover—the music, which mainlines the noisiest impulses of SounDC, the discourse—is brasher and more acidic than ever.—
Mano Sundaresan,
Pitchfork,
10 June 2026
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His load can get a bit noisy, featuring a moderate leg kick and a slight bat wrap, but Ballinger operates with rhythm and consistently gets the barrel on the baseball.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
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Those songs remind Omara of real people and real events, political interludes whose senselessness and brutality have left unmusical lacunae in her life.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
18 Dec. 2023
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His parents were unmusical Russian-Jewish immigrants who ran various businesses with mixed success.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
3 Oct. 2019
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Loesser’s score is ambitious and diverse, with a discordant duet by Joe and Rosabella, lively Neapolitan-style songs by the Italian vineyeard workers, a beautifully harmonized barbershop quartet and some classic Broadway belter songs.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2026
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The most discordant notes were sounded by Larson’s two speakers.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
23 May 2026
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“Inharmonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inharmonious. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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