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as in shrill
marked by or producing a harsh combination of sounds
discordant tones coming from the poorly tuned instrument
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2
as in noisy
making loud, confused, and usually unharmonious sounds
the discordant cries of gulls fighting over the fishing boat's castoffs
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as in aggressive
feeling or displaying eagerness to fight
a troubled, discordant family that would benefit from professional counseling
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as in conflicting
not being in agreement or harmony
his views on the proper role of diet in maintaining good health are certainly discordant with most contemporary opinions on the subject
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Recent Examples of discordant
The film’s score is, by turns, delicate and bold, flowing and discordant, unrepentantly experimental, and an echo of the grandeur of Hollywood.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
It is hypothesized these discordant results may be due to the 2021 research’s focus on young healthy subjects compared to earlier work looking at older subjects already displaying some degree of neurodegeneration or cognitive decline.
—New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025
That’s the disturbing question being debated this week in response to the discordant noises from Washington.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
Transgender and nonbinary people living in states that bar gender marker changes have already been living with discordant documents.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
It is hypothesized these discordant results may be due to the 2021 research’s focus on young healthy subjects compared to earlier work looking at older subjects already displaying some degree of neurodegeneration or cognitive decline.
—New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025
That’s the disturbing question being debated this week in response to the discordant noises from Washington.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
Transgender and nonbinary people living in states that bar gender marker changes have already been living with discordant documents.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discordant
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Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
22 Apr. 2025
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As such, The Studio is shrill and talky, its chaotic scenes sparked by random performers like Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, Olivia Wilde and Sarah Polley, all of whom want something from Remick.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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Our emissions are simply too loud, too noisy, and too difficult to remove.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 Apr. 2025
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The resulting truck was so noisy it couldn’t be sold in several states, including California, Florida, and Maryland.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
14 Apr. 2025
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More likely than an all-out boycott, say attorneys, is a new era in which taxpayers and their accountants push the envelope with aggressive tax-planning techniques that may escape the review of an understaffed agency.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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The prison has become a symbol of Bukele's aggressive policies that have targeted gang violence.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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These are two starkly conflicting therapeutic pieces of advice.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Woman Found Alive and 'Gasping for Air' in Body Bag at Iowa Funeral Home The conflicting accounts weighed heavily on the family’s mental state.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The major-sevenths, by stuffing four notes into the chords, offered greater harmonic options, and Sikes was determined to take advantage of them, encouraging Wayne to incorporate the dissonant notes into her high harmonies.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
22 Apr. 2025
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And there’s a blunt, pulp poetry to Manny’s conclusion (if not a particularly sensitive one), driven to despair by an inability to live in the dissonant but very real space between one’s religious moral compass and the realities of one’s life.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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The attack at Pahalgam on Tuesday was claimed by The Resistance Front (TRF), which is an offshoot of Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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However, Pakistan denied any connection to the attack, which was claimed by a militant group that called itself the Kashmir Resistance.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Even so, the practice of choosing a papal name remained inconsistent for the next 1,000 years, with most popes using their baptismal names.—
Christopher Watson,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2025
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After an inconsistent first half of the season, manager Unai Emery has found a way of tinkering with Villa’s line-up and still winning.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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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
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For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
24 July 2021
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“Discordant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discordant. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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