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as in prose
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as in jarring
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlyrical
Adjective
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This cheerfully genre-crossing autobiographical novel is told in rhyming couplets with some prose sections interspersed.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
2 Apr. 2025 -
Or just a Fascist? February 22, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes Does a glorious prose style reflect a glorious quality in a writer’s soul?—
Paul Berman,
airmail.news,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The result is a jarring financial cliff that could reshape the landscape of public education for years.—
Charlotte Morabito,
CNBC,
22 Apr. 2025
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The production is moving faster than his raps, which sounds a bit jarring at first.—
Angel Diaz,
Billboard,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Vietnamese refugees who got a warm welcome from America puzzle at family separations, harsh rhetoric In Vietnam, Lam had owned three companies.—
Anh Do,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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President Donald Trump has launched harsh immigration actions in his first 100 days in office—detaining more people for immigration violations, allowing arrests outside schools and courthouses, and sending more than 200 Venezuelan men to be imprisoned in El Salvador.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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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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The Miz, often derided as a wrestler for his flamboyant and grating onscreen personality, is few people’s idea of a WrestleMania main-event talent, so his win makes the 27th event stand out as kind of an oddity.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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His political opponents viewed him as grating, uncooperative, and at times dogmatic.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Whatever his political intent, Lai has become more strident on cross-Taiwan Strait questions in recent weeks.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
26 Apr. 2025
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That strategy drew a furious response from some of the city’s employee unions, who distributed posters comparing Villaraigosa to Wisconsin’s then-Gov. Scott Walker, viewed at that time as a strident foe of organized labor.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Unlyrical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlyrical. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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