discordant

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His voice grew sharp and discordant, his words hot and triumphant Almost as pasty as when you challenged me to produce those damned bales of fur.

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  1. adjective Not being in accord; conflicting.
  2. adjective Disagreeable in sound; harsh or dissonant.

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  • When this Installation went discordant, the hospital zoolipt adapted. —  Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer 2 - Dancer's Luck (v1.0)
  • Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. —  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2
  • There was too much that was discordant, apprehensive, and resentful in the thoughts of the six people who sat round the dinner-table and presently adjourned to the drawing-room. —  The Silent Pool - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 25
  • 'Here Is The City (Chicago)' is a very Bowie-esque song with wonderful echoey vocals and discordant, and disorientated music which transport you to a strange, unfamiliar city in which you feel you don't quite belong. —  Insomnia Radio: Indie Music Network
  • As Lincoln organized the forces arrayed against slavery, he was heard to say: "Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through." —  Claremont.org
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  1. from Middle English descordaunt, from Old French descordant, discordant, French discordant = Sp.Portuguese discordante = Italian discordante, scordante, from Latin discordan (t-)s, present participle of discordare, disagree: see discord, v.
 

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