cacophonous
adjective
having a harsh or discordant sound.
cacophonously
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a word derived from
cacophonous.
Example Sentences
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“Sweeney Todd” is invoked in a running gag in which a beggar woman cacophonously pleads not for alms but for “Hamilton” tickets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2017
Anyone with the mildest case of synaesthesia will have a jarring time of it with some of these paintings, where the same words – Blah Blah Blah – come squeegeed in cacophonously multicoloured arrays.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2012
Its frontman, Eugene Hutz, a mustachioed Ukrainian-American, favors forest-hued velvet jackets and cacophonously patterned shirts, his glad rags turning heads among the fashion cognoscenti.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2012
Its elevated railway, originally constructed for steam trains, clattered relentlessly over a darkened street where tramcars, busses, taxis and trucks cacophonously disputed passage.
From Time Magazine Archive
How, also, would this weaver who slumbered so cacophonously welcome a rival to his realms.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
