Definition of CACOPHONOUS

Examples of cacophonous in a Sentence

the cacophonous chaos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Recent Examples of cacophonous from the Web

The spirit of that diaspora cuisine lives at Spice Symphony, a compact, cacophonous canteen near Curry Hill.

— jiayang fan, The New Yorker, "Spice Symphony’s Chinese-Indian Fusion", 9 Jan. 2017
The forests on the island of Hawaii once rang with the cacophonous — sometimes almost human-sounding — cries, screams and yells of the Hawaiian crow, or ‘

— michael bean, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, "Forests hear call of ‘alala", 27 Dec. 2016
The families of children who stop by Liberty Center on early Sunday mornings this holiday season aren’t just after a visit with Santa, but a respite from the cacophonous chaos that sometimes is the holiday season.

— eric schwartzberg, ajc, "'Sensory Santa' helps children with autism, other special needs", 17 Dec. 2016
Nevertheless, the minds behind the platform are aware of the stereotypes about young black activists espousing a rudderless, cacophonous sort of anger, often offered by the president himself.

— vann r. newkirk ii, The Atlantic, "The Permanence of Black Lives Matter", 3 Aug. 2016
A sprawling, cacophonous city with flights volleying in from Europe and North America, Dakar is a fitting place to muster an international crew to overthrow an African government.

— stuart a. reid, The Atlantic, "'Let’s Go Take Back Our Country'", 5 Feb. 2016
The ‘tonetacles’ of the Octopulse react to movement and light, transferring movements into information for an analogue synthesiser to convert into cacophonous noises.

— john brownlee, WIRED, "The Octopulse: Play A Cephalopod Like The Bagpipes", 22 June 2007

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