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dissonant
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  • The debate grew tense as their dissonant views clashed over every issue.
    dissonantly = conflicting
  • For a while, I just close my eyes and listen, mesmerized by the beauty of the song. Then something begins to disrupt the music. ... Dissonant notes intersperse with the melody.  (source)
    Dissonant = harsh or clashing
  • The Citroën navigated the chaos with authority, its dissonant two-tone siren parting the traffic like a knife.  (source)
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  • It bounced off the ant's forehead with a dissonant twang.  (source)
    dissonant = harsh or clashing
  • 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.†  (source)
  • At Magee, they did a wonderful job of simultaneously communicating two dissonant things.  (source)
    dissonant = conflicting
  • His head was bursting with a thousand dissonant impulses as he prayed for the bombs to drop.  (source)
  • They met the Dissonant Toad, which could imitate human speech in a gravelly voice.†  (source)
  • From another came a dissonant piping that made the dragon lash his tail wildly from side to side.†  (source)
  • We walk down a flight of narrow stairs where the echo of our footsteps layers over itself, dissonant and hollow.†  (source)
  • He could hear dissonant music from inside and the sound of an occasional yell.†  (source)
  • To Charles Jr. No longer the bubblegum boy of yore but a failed preppy now, slant-bodied and dissonant, with dumdum eyes and a way of hating you from a distance.†  (source)
  • Strange dissonant notes thrown together, wanting resolution, and somehow they captured America and Science and all that was bold and brash and daring and exciting about America (or at least the way she imagined America to be).†  (source)
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