dissonant
adjective
disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
dissonantly
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a word derived from
dissonant.
Example Sentences
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The culture trap about pageants is that they were often treated like a societal measuring stick — and came up dissonantly, mortifyingly short.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
But if Ustvolskaya’s few, grim compositions are works of violent extremes, the brutally loud cluster chords that often smash their way dissonantly through them are tempered with moments of quiet, rapt tranquillity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Wikipedia says confidently that “I Love You, California” is played at the funerals of California governors, but it sounds too dissonantly peppy for that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
The first five notes remind Mr. Levit of a later piece, Schumann’s song cycle “Dichterliebe,” which begins dissonantly with a C sharp quickly followed by a D two octaves lower.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
So here all jars dissonantly; all is confusion, because avenged must be every violation of nature's law.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
