disharmonic

Definition of disharmonicnext

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Adjective
  • Precisely for this reason, what is particularly important is the undertone of the brown lipstick, which can be pinkish or orange to create a continuum with the complexion, avoiding creating disharmonious contrasts.
    Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2025
  • From the start — before the start — Leicester’s season has been disharmonious, with the threat of a points deduction hanging over them, Enzo Maresca leaving for Chelsea in early June, Steve Cooper, his replacement, lasting five months and Ruud van Nistelrooy now the conductor of catastrophe.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Choosing the wrong rug size or layout can make a room feel awkward and unbalanced.
    Kristin Hohenadel, The Spruce, 10 June 2026
  • Last year’s team certainly felt unbalanced in that regard, with too many shooters and not enough large bodies inside to provide a balance on offense.
    Shaun Goodwin June 9, Idaho Statesman, 9 June 2026
Adjective
  • Jesus proved over and over again the all-encompassing authority of God, which destroys all inharmonious conditions, including sin and disease.
    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
Adjective
  • The arc evolved from inharmonic drones and swoops to a stretch of rolling, arpeggiated waves reminiscent of musical minimalism, and then back again.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The stimuli included harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds (produced by shifting some frequencies of a previously harmonic sound), and sounds with beating and without.
    ScienceNow, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2012
Adjective
  • The experts say doctors need to aggressively screen for this—and disordered behavior that may not rise to a formal diagnosis—before, during and after treatment.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 4 June 2026
  • Days after the season 4 premiere, Taylor addressed her history of disordered eating in a candid Instagram post.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
Adjective
  • The result of unequal state policy enforcement is a prohibition that exists on paper and a gun that stays in the home.
    Sativa Banks, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • Why love a country founded in conquest and exploitation that remains deeply unequal today?
    Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
Adjective
  • The look was designed by Daniel Roseberry and featured an asymmetrical jacket with personalized gold bijoux buttons, one of which appears to be an eye.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Cast in a brown color tone, the skirt contrasted the bodice in both color and material, with a jersey-like fabric and an asymmetric hemline that created a high-low effect for the overall look.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
Adjective
  • The beloved Greengrass wallpaper, with its incongruous scenes of old New Orleans, has been absorbing the smell for many decades.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • But sticking synthetic turf on one of the world’s most famous beaches struck some as incongruous, or worse.
    Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026
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“Disharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonic. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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