disharmony
noun
lack of harmony; discord.
disharmonies
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pluralof disharmony.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Collisions in the abysses of space, which undoubtedly take place, look like disharmonies and failures of order, as they undoubtedly192 are.
From Under the Maples by John Burroughs
The disharmonies in Nature in both the living and the non-living worlds tend to correct themselves.
From Under the Maples by John Burroughs
But Thackeray manipulates the keys of the tale so that 'it moves like music,' an extremely apt metaphor, where harmonies can be made disharmonies by a single note.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke
