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
But only the stage can accomplish miracles and there custom stales the plot and disharmonies garble intention.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
For Corydon was one person, in body, mind and soul; in her there were no disharmonies, no warring elements.
From Love's Pilgrimage by Upton Sinclair
So he would pass on his way, shattering the peaceful air at half-minute intervals with his bilingual disharmonies.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
