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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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
He is the catalyst and the driving force behind the disharmony.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
Never once did I witness any disharmony between one of my uncles and the earth and work of the valley.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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
Our intelligence informs us that man is capable of much, and, therefore, we hope that he may be able to modify his own nature and transform his disharmonies into harmonies.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
There arises before our phantasy a new perspective of human affairs; a suggestion of well-being wherein the futile complexities and disharmonies of our age shall have no place.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
A drought that destroys animal and vegetable life, or a flood that sweeps it away, or a thunderbolt that shatters a living tree, are all disharmonies of Nature.
From Under the Maples by John Burroughs
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