disharmony
Americannoun
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lack of accord or harmony
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a situation, circumstance, etc, that is inharmonious
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It was proof, yet again, that elderly parents leave behind financial disharmony, despite their best intentions.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
The last thing clients want is for the wealth they worked so hard for to end up creating disharmony at best, and litigation at worst.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
But he is still concerned by misinformation and, he says, the potential for far-right groups to create disharmony.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
In an op-ed Tuesday in the Arizona Republic, Clint Bolick said his marriage could easily withstand his wife’s vote: “That caused no marital disharmony because she is a policymaker and I am not.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
But then the girls settled into a sweet disharmony that brought tears to Theresa’s eyes.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Eerily floating string disharmonies were cut off by jarring percussion and brass outbursts; inquisitive wind motifs were answered with stark silences.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2011
The oldest American negotiation, the endless business between black and white, may be subverted more than we know by disharmonies of expectation and assumption.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the conviction that science alone is able to redress the disharmonies of the human constitution will lead directly to the improvement of education and to the solidarity of mankind.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
All those disharmonies in our industrial countries such as the prevalent discord between working and capitalistic classes seem, we have said, to be social rather than economic in nature.
From The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G.E. Partridge
Although disharmonies tend to the destruction of a species, they may themselves disappear without having destroyed the race in which they occur.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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