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discord
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discord as in:  discord amongst the group

There is too much discord in the team.
discord = conflict
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  • There is too much discord in their home.
  • They attempted to inflame Shi'ah-Sunni discord.
    discord = conflict or disagreement
  • The only visible wisp of discord was the broken glass in the windows of Jewish businesses.  (source)
    discord = conflict
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  • Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great.  (source)
    discord = conflict and disagreement
  • With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.  (source)
    discords = conflicts
  • discordant with the sinewy length of his jawline  (source)
    discordant = seeming different  or wrong together
  • The walls of the rooms were discordantly papered.  (source)
    discordantly = seeming wrong along with everything else
  • Nick could not look at his brother without wanting to pop him a shot across the mouth. ... The deep discordance, the old muscling of wills, that ungiving thing in the idea of brothers.  (source)
    discordance = conflict
  • And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.†  (source)
  • To render their voices harsh, it would seem to require active, malignant, passions, though, when excited, their screams can rise to a sufficiently conspicuous degree of discordancy to assert their claim to possess this distinctive peculiarity of the sex.†  (source)
  • I didn't want to be a source of familial discord when they were already arguing.  (source)
    discord = conflict and argument
  • And on that lofty plane all will fall into place, all discords be resolved, and truth flash forth from the dark cloud of seeming injustice.  (source)
    discords = disagreements or conflicts
  • ...to make that new interpretation work, discordant details were leveled out,  (source)
    discordant = conflicting
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discord as in:  discordant music

She described the loud discordant music as a form of torture.
discordant = unpleasant sounding
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  • She heard the discordant clanging of pots in the kitchen.
    discordant = unpleasant sound
  • the screams and bangs and all the discordant sounds of the battle  (source)
    discordant = unpleasant (sounds)
  • ...the bats' discordant concerts of squeaking and chattering.  (source)
    discordant = unpleasant sounding
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  • I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.  (source)
    discordant = unpleasant sounding
  • ...as if every letter were a musical note and any words spoken without love were a discord in the melody.  (source)
    discord = unpleasant sound
  • discords in the bass  (source)
    discords = unpleasant sounds
  • I shivered violently, and shouted again--rather discordantly.  (source)
    discordantly = unpleasantly (with a harsh sound)
  • ...the crack of Winchesters had the discordance of a nightmare.  (source)
    discordance = bad sound
  • Discordant bells clanged...  (source)
    Discordant = unpleasant sounding together
  • ...laughed with just the right tone of appreciation, but the sound carried a note of discord as it collided with...  (source)
  • ...harp out of his pocket and began to extract doleful discords from it,  (source)
    discords = unpleasant sounds
  • Their merry voices contrasted discordantly...  (source)
    discordantly = not sounding good together
  • The music came to a crashing, discordant halt,  (source)
    discordant = unpleasant sounding (probably because the musicians did not all stop at the same time)
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