dissonant

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Traditional Latin prayers sung by men have a heavy, chant-like ominousness; the two female angels who appear in the visions convey an urgent, slightly dissonant ecstasy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

But the truth is dissonant, as Stokes pointed out.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2025

Experts say that the merger strikes a dissonant chord from a branding perspective too.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

In the Mahler, Welser-Möst charted an unbroken, long-breathed line from the violas’ mysterious sadness and the violins’ soaring romanticism to the dissonant climax, in which the piece seems to implode with its own emotional cataclysm.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Grover Underwood and a team of satyrs danced around with their panpipes, playing harmonies so dissonant that the earthen-shelled ghosts cracked apart.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan