disharmonic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmonic
Adjective
  • From the start — before the start — Leicester’s season has been disharmonious, with the threat of a points deduction hanging over them, Enzo Maresca leaving for Chelsea in early June, Steve Cooper, his replacement, lasting five months and Ruud van Nistelrooy now the conductor of catastrophe.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Months earlier, Charles Vallow had told police that his wife was threatening to kill him, describing her behavior as increasingly unbalanced.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Perhaps even more than that, PSG — long dismissed and derided as a hopelessly unbalanced gaggle of individual superstars — have become a team, widely respected for the remarkable industriousness of their football and the humble, unshowy brilliance of their young players.
    Tom Williams, New York Times, 8 Apr. 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 challenge is not the technology itself but rather unequal access to it.
    Sam Sammane, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But despite the canal’s financial success, Panama today is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America.
    Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Consequently, disordered labor disputes have added to the sense of lawlessness and have worsened the economic decline.
    Lindsay Benstead, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2013
  • In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 27 Dec. 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 25 Apr. 2025.

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