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
And the statistics of books and pamphlets published and circulated in France on the Italian question this year are in most prodigious disaccord with such a conclusion.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
These remarks are offered as a caution against attaching undue importance to disaccord in the details of the minutiæ that are found in the same place in different prints.
From Finger Prints by Galton, Francis, Sir
The sociologist found that the only test of acquired or inherited degeneracy in man was disaccord with environment.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
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