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  • adverb In a cacophonous manner.

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cacophonous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Dan Deacon, BromstPart hippie-dippy community art project, part "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," Bromst is a dynamic, schizophrenic listen: churchly quiet a singular second, cacophonously ear-splitting a next.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Dan Deacon, BromstPart hippie-dippy community art project, part "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," Bromst is a dynamic, schizophrenic listen: churchly quiet a singular second, cacophonously ear-splitting a next.

    The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery admin 2009

  • Doubtless Adrian Bevington and his team are already ensuring that the Krakow lavatories flush with a rising swoosh that is at once intriguingly foreign and yet not so cacophonously weird as to affect Ashley Cole's regularity.

    All cisterns must be go for England's team at Euro 2012 | Harry Pearson 2011

  • I yank open the cupboard, grab the necessary utensils, clanging them cacophonously.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • I yank open the cupboard, grab the necessary utensils, clanging them cacophonously.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • I yank open the cupboard, grab the necessary utensils, clanging them cacophonously.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • Why we like him: One of Zmijewski's many portraits of social exclusion, The Singing Lesson II, features a choir of deaf teens cacophonously belting out Bach.

    Artist of the Week 101: Artur Zmijewski 2010

  • Most of the time it was impossible to make out anything that the crowd was shouting, but every now and then the cacophonously overlapping vocalizations united into an “Ohhh!” or an “Ooooh!” or a “Yay!”

    Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

  • I yank open the cupboard, grab the necessary utensils, clanging them cacophonously.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • That night, the folded paper-pouches and stuffed-tubes we made roared cacophonously with widely spread bursts of flashes and flame.

    Dan Dubno: Blowing Things Up: In Praise of a Pyrotechnical Education 2009

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