disharmonic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmonic
Adjective
  • Precisely for this reason, what is particularly important is the undertone of the brown lipstick, which can be pinkish or orange to create a continuum with the complexion, avoiding creating disharmonious contrasts.
    Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Yet Gracia, encouraged by the priests to suffer in imitation of Christ and for the promise of eternal afterlife, resolved to stay in disharmonious matrimony with Tadaoki.
    Nicholas Liu, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • There is something subtly unbalanced about how the perspective of the staircase has been delineated.
    Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike IPAs, which lean into unbalanced territory, APAs remain nicely balanced, and so any American pale ale will do, although the original is still pretty darn good.
    Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 July 2021
Adjective
  • The sound of this solicitation purr is especially inharmonic, and cat owners are actually more attuned to it than non-owners, so there's no learning to just ignore it.
    Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2012
  • The arc evolved from inharmonic drones and swoops to a stretch of rolling, arpeggiated waves reminiscent of musical minimalism, and then back again.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
Adjective
  • The state’s Indigenous children suffer the greatest consequences because most rural school districts are predominantly Alaska Native — a population that was long forced to attend separate and unequal schools.
    Emily Schwing, ProPublica, 4 Mar. 2025
  • In a country marred with unequal land distribution based on race, the government uses expropriation as a tool to address systemic land inequality and dispossession.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.
    Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History, TIME, 10 June 2024
Adjective
  • The penial fold, however, is asymmetrical, earning the species its name, researchers said.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For the occasion, the actress changed into a classic black dress with a V-neckline and an asymmetrical, off-the-shoulder design on one side.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • His sparkplug presence has a similarly incongruous power.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
  • But the exceptional nature of McDonald’s gifts strikes an incongruous note.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Disharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonic. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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