dissonant
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The crowd sings the chorus in dissonant harmony.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Chivalry is unworkable because it’s simply too dissonant for men.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
The striking “Porcelana,” about enduring pain for fleeting pleasure, has a woozy, dissonant arrangement that mixes woodwinds, shrieking strings, and skittering percussion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Experts say that the merger strikes a dissonant chord from a branding perspective too.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
The resulting jangling, sparklingly dissonant sound, which is brittle, full of edgy attack and a kind of out-of-tune resonance, would have been - literally - unimaginable, even terrifying to audiences of the day.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing dissonant
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