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as in conflicting
not being in agreement or harmony
the inn bans young children because the owners believe that they are inharmonious with the quiet atmosphere other guests desire
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as in shrill
marked by or producing a harsh combination of sounds
a deliberately inharmonious piece of music in the modern idiom
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Recent Examples of inharmonious
Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.
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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, 24 July 2021
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, 24 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inharmonious
Adjective
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Iran’s 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has mocked Trump, but officials in his country also have offered conflicting signals over whether negotiations could take place.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
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As the events of the 1830s indicated, competing social groups and conflicting interests would continue to battle over postal policy and, implicitly, control over the nation’s information network.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There are many reasons to visit New Orleans, from po' boys filled with heaps of fried shrimp spilling out of pillowy soft French bread, the shrill trills of brass trumpets, and the constant bustle of revelers across the city.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2025
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He’s gone up higher for other roles before, like his shrill turn as a rotten southern preacher in The Devil All the Time and his sassy French accent in The King.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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However, the Jets’ defense was inconsistent after Robert Saleh’s firing following a 2-3 start.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
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But uneven rain patterns across the state mean the wildflower situation will be inconsistent.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There’s no denying the fact that Severance (nearing the end of its sophomore season on Apple TV+) has refined priceless television gold from dissonant contradiction.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Thus, the best skinny jeans will boast a lower front rise and a slightly higher back rise to accommodate the dissonant sitting and standing coverage requirements.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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That leads to the second point: automating boring tasks, or delegating unpleasant things to the AI itself.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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This grandma insisted my daughter hit her, then made the tour unpleasant Ask a real estate pro: Can HOA force owner to put up fence and swap out plants?—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Uniformity In Spectral Reflectance: Satellites that acquire images at the same hour and angle are inherently less noisy and therefore the computer vision models’ accuracies improve.—
Elizabeth Duffy,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Last summer, a small but noisy group of venture capitalists, many of whom had criticized left-of-center workplace norms, endorsed the candidacy of Donald Trump.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Those songs remind Omara of real people and real events, political interludes whose senselessness and brutality have left unmusical lacunae in her life.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
18 Dec. 2023
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His parents were unmusical Russian-Jewish immigrants who ran various businesses with mixed success.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
3 Oct. 2019
Adjective
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That’s the disturbing question being debated this week in response to the discordant noises from Washington.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2025
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Rule 10b5-1 trading plans came into the fold just over two decades ago to reconcile these two discordant facts.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Inharmonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inharmonious. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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