disaccord
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of disaccord
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French desac ( c ) order, derivative of desacort. See dis- 1, accord
Example Sentences
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Yet there were moments during the meeting when the two leaders found themselves in what one observer called "cordial disaccord" and another acknowledged as "sharp exchanges."
From Time Magazine Archive
Example: Sovietologist Richard Lowenthal has sorrowfully expressed his amazement at Solzhenitsyn's "utter disaccord with the facts of recent international history."
From Time Magazine Archive
He listened to them quietly, in impenetrable silence, and never fulfilled any of their requests, because they were all in disaccord with the regulations.
From Resurrection by Maude, Louise Shanks
They argue that its premises are in disaccord with the known laws governing human nature, that its details do not square with the average of probability.
From Novel Notes by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
But slave-exportation is practically dead; we would not revive it, nor indeed could we, the revival would be a new institution, completely in disaccord with the spirit of the age.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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