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Recent Examples of disharmonious
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.
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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
Yet Gracia, encouraged by the priests to suffer in imitation of Christ and for the promise of eternal afterlife, resolved to stay in disharmonious matrimony with Tadaoki.
—Nicholas Liu, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Despite Elizabeth being uniquely disharmonious, her particular brand of chaos feels very true to New York’s creative world, in which antiquated systems reign supreme and difficult personalities are always jockeying for space.
—Elaina Patton, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024
Unusually for a company that has been disharmonious in the months since Musk launched his takeover bid, Twitter’s rank and file employees have not flocked to support Zatko’s whistleblowing efforts.
—WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
Correspondent David Pogue looks at how music copyrights have become an increasingly disharmonious area of litigation.
—CBS News, 31 Mar. 2022
Here is a transcript of relevant passages from her speech:
Change, especially change that requires legislative solutions, will not occur easily given our vast, inherently disharmonious, and increasingly polarized country.
—Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
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
Yet Gracia, encouraged by the priests to suffer in imitation of Christ and for the promise of eternal afterlife, resolved to stay in disharmonious matrimony with Tadaoki.
—Nicholas Liu, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Despite Elizabeth being uniquely disharmonious, her particular brand of chaos feels very true to New York’s creative world, in which antiquated systems reign supreme and difficult personalities are always jockeying for space.
—Elaina Patton, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024
Unusually for a company that has been disharmonious in the months since Musk launched his takeover bid, Twitter’s rank and file employees have not flocked to support Zatko’s whistleblowing efforts.
—WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
Correspondent David Pogue looks at how music copyrights have become an increasingly disharmonious area of litigation.
—CBS News, 31 Mar. 2022
Here is a transcript of relevant passages from her speech:
Change, especially change that requires legislative solutions, will not occur easily given our vast, inherently disharmonious, and increasingly polarized country.
—Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmonious
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Jonny Greenwood’s score moves between soaring strings and dissonant piano keys, alternately soothing and anxious; a few pieces composed by Jon Brion add an ambient layer of wistfulness.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
26 Sep. 2025
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Jonny Greenwood’s score moves between soaring strings and dissonant piano keys, alternately soothing and anxious; a few pieces composed by Jon Brion add an ambient layer of wistfulness.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 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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But the ever-reliable consumer is beginning to look shaky, courtesy of an unpleasant mix of a stagnating job market and sticky inflation.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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The power is accompanied by a loud, unpleasant exhaust note.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Wallen, who has seemingly made a name for himself more so by generating controversy than for his music, struck a particularly discordant note when he was caught on camera using a racist slur in 2021.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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But Tahoe opens things up to some truly discordant-looking color combinations.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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From the moment it was announced the Ryder Cup would come to New York, many expected a raucous crowd that could rival the 1999 Brookline crowd in Massachusetts for the most hostile toward Europeans.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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This raucous feast for the senses stars Farrell as a wild gambler slowly losing it all.—
Madeleine Janz,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Over the weekend, reports emerged that the higher tariffs followed a disagreeable Thursday phone call between Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter and Trump — which Swiss officials rejected, according to Reuters.—
Sophie Kiderlin,Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
4 Aug. 2025
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Trump and his supporters prefer a happy history, a pleasant history that arouses patriotism by overlooking disagreeable people and despicable events that sully the nation’s reputation and mar the magnificence of the American story.—
William C. Hine,
Twin Cities,
23 July 2025
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There was the leather craftsmanship of Leo Prothmann to the quiet and clashing elegance of Nanushka.—
Violet Goldstone,
Footwear News,
24 Sep. 2025
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The reason for the Fed’s tentative steps is its two primary and potentially clashing mandates — maximum sustainable employment and price stability.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Disharmonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonious. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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