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- ca·copho·nous·ly adverb
- unca·copho·nous adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cacophonous1
Example Sentences
A psychologist might describe the benefits of this cognitive specificity in terms of “flow,” the buzzword applied to activities that focus the attention on something immediate and tangible, to the exclusion of the cacophonous wider world.
It is a cacophonous soundscape that had changed little in tens of thousands of years.
Their shocked glee was cacophonous: for many conservatives, the glitterati of Hollywood are a bunch of sneering atheists.
The halftime show, especially, is a cacophonous display of shock and awe.
The news prompted cacophonous street celebrations in Tripoli with guns blazing, fireworks exploding, and car horns blaring.
Sometimes, though, she looks determinedly frumpy in bold, geometric cacophonous patterns.
Others have no doubt quite sincerely refused to perform any music that sounded cacophonous to them.
Yet again, he talks vaguely of the intricate polyphony of a cosmic orchestra, cacophonous to our dull ears.
And to even that remnant of music--their few jumbled cacophonous melodies--they clung with a devotion almost phenomenal.
In Orocué they always began their cacophonous serenade at nightfall, and kept it up uninterruptedly until the following morning.
She had a black eye which the cacophonous fiend had probably given her, and she grinned like a happy child of nature.
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