Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a dissonant manner.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

dissonant +‎ -ly

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dissonantly.

Examples

  • Republicans had successfully sold themselves as the party of economic growth, the party of the angry out-of-work American, and, most dissonantly, the party of change.

    Brian Komar: The Case for Culture Brian Komar 2011

  • Backed by Kelly on drums and Massimo on bass comprising an air-tight, rolling thunder rhythm section, Daniel's guitar stabs and clatters dissonantly giving nuggets like 'Tigers' a Wire circa 1977 bent.

    Joe Schraufnagel: Little Victory: Punk Rock Parking Lot Apocalypse Joe Schraufnagel 2011

  • Styles sometimes jangle dissonantly, sometimes cohere in this third iteration of the renowned quincennial exhibition, which has had a remarkable knack in the past for identifying emerging young talents in New York's five boroughs who later went on to big careers.

    ARTINFO: Top 10 Shows to See In New York City 2010

  • In the first, built around the Mexican quartet Marimba Nandayapa, the voices sounded remotely medieval while the marimbas sounded dissonantly postmodern, but somehow they all came together.

    Ay, Marimba! 2010

  • Styles sometimes jangle dissonantly, sometimes cohere in this third iteration of the renowned quincennial exhibition, which has had a remarkable knack in the past for identifying emerging young talents in New York's five boroughs who later went on to big careers.

    ARTINFO: The Top Ten Shows to See In New York City 2010

  • And in the middle of Lennie's most harmonically dissonantly beautiful passages I started hearing echoes of Ives's "indigenous grandeur."

    "Classical" American Music, cont'd from July 5 post The Daily Growler 2006

  • In it, I argued that the laugh-track comedy, dissonantly conventional except for its nudity and swearing, betrayed HBO's raison d'etre of doing what the rest of TV can't.

    Lucky Deadwood: It’s C__________ing Hilarious! - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

  • At any rate, the sight of any other youth thus romantically engaged with his girl was sufficient to set dissonantly jangling the repressed and protesting libido of his nature.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • But letting pass their other absurdities (for our design is not to inquire what they have said amiss, but only what they have said dissonantly to themselves), consider how he always attributes to the gods specious and kind appellations, but at the same time cruel, barbarous, and Galatian deeds.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Any of these chords, though, are likely to be dissonantly altered (particularly into an augmented chord) or played against another of the chords by the other guitar player.

    FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise. 1999

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.