disharmonic

Example Sentences

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Yet it’s also appropriate, a kind of disharmonic convergence.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2014

In that dim continual journey she was like a disharmonic spirit traversing the air above where its body lies.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John

Vöchting distinguishes as harmonic or disharmonic the modes of union between twig and stem, according to whether or no they reach the formation of functional unity.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

Each section of the wooden slabs gives forth a different note when struck, a penetrating, xylophonic, tone but devoid of the disagreeably metallic, disharmonic bysounds of that instrument.

From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot

Hundreds of times he had been baffled by the hedge round that disharmonic nature.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John