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loud confusing disagreeable sounds- There was a cacophony of discord as everyone spoke at once.
cacophony = combination of loud confusing disagreeable sounds
- a cacophony of different musical styles — each trying to play louder than the other
- ...the cacophony of children's voices, thousands of them at play, splashing in the river and shrieking with innocent laughter.Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- His harsh voice cut through the cacophony of the attack.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- He was suddenly assailed by a bewildering cacophony of voices.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- His howl touched off a chorus of screams and cries chat rivaled the cacophony outside the bus.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- You drowned in music and pure cacophony.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- But a cacophony filled Maryse's mind, the psychic echo of their shock and horror.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- A weird cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar with laughter.Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
- How well they both hid the cacophony life wrote in their bones.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- She saw Mama, sitting on a blanket, a cacophony of color that covered an acre in zigzag rows.Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
- I was afraid they might wake the grove and drown us in a cacophony of prophecies, bad jokes, and infomercials.Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo
- Every sunrise and every sunset the bird songs were near-deafening: a diurnal cacophony of notes clear and limpid, bizarre and unmelodious.James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
- In the background, she could hear music blaring and the cacophony of a hundred conversations.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- The roar of activity increased, a cacophony of shouts and whistles and jeers and laughing.James Dashner -- The Kill Order
- Tin horns were added to the cacophony.Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- And he could almost hear all of them together, drifting through the hotel and making a graceful cacophony.Stephen King -- The Shining
- They opened it and found themselves standing at the junction of two corridors, bathed in a cacophony of monkey cries.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
cacophony = loud confusing sounds
cacophony = loud confusing disagreeable sounds
cacophony = loud noises
cacophony = combination of loud confusing disagreeable sounds
cacophony = loud confusing disagreeable sounds
cacophony = loud confusing disagreeable sounds
cacophony = loud confusing disagreeable sounds