disharmony
Americannoun
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lack of accord or harmony
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a situation, circumstance, etc, that is inharmonious
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“I honestly believe the disharmony – the rivalries – definitely played a big part in taking us out of the running to win.”
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
It was proof, yet again, that elderly parents leave behind financial disharmony, despite their best intentions.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
The last thing clients want is for the wealth they worked so hard for to end up creating disharmony at best, and litigation at worst.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
In an op-ed Tuesday in the Arizona Republic, Clint Bolick said his marriage could easily withstand his wife’s vote: “That caused no marital disharmony because she is a policymaker and I am not.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
But then the girls settled into a sweet disharmony that brought tears to Theresa’s eyes.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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 this simple social order already shows certain basic disharmonies.
From The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by Partridge, G.E.
This is probably true in at least half the families; and many matrimonial disharmonies are the result.
From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus
It gives the ideas of the disharmonies that can be found in any market place in any English market town on any English market day.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Braybrooke, Patrick
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