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Definition of cacophonous
: marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding like an old battlefield, once cacophonous with the clash of steel, the roar of cannon, the screams of wounded and dying men — Brian Moore
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Examples of cacophonous in a Sentence
the cacophonous chaos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
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My heart was sinking, each string plucked again and again in cacophonous fury.
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The high energy and cacophonous, somewhat snug, nature of LouVino’s Highlands outpost is traded in for roomy, wing back chairs and wide booths of the Middletown location.
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Give me this cacophonous, clumsy, glorious mess over any Legion or American Gods or whatever other furious nonsense is happening elsewhere any day.
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Give me this cacophonous, clumsy, glorious mess over any Legion or American Gods or whatever other furious nonsense is happening elsewhere any day.
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But therapists involved in such programs speculate that their benefits actually derive from shutting down for a time some of our brain’s higher and sometimes cacophonous cognitive functions.
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The cacophonous and often intoxicating Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans (who can be as reminiscent of the Sun Ra Arkestra as a Dixieland group) will appear, as will trumpeter-bandleader Christian Scott.
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Nobody could be sure whether the cacophonous squawks emanating from Coleman’s white plastic alto sax were the sounds of groundbreaking genius or the flailings of an unschooled provocateur.
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Males and females sing to each other in a cacophonous duet, strengthening their bonds and advertising territories.
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Origin and Etymology of cacophonous
Greek kakophōnos, from kak- + phōnē voice, sound — more at ban
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