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
  • That’s going to wear thin quickly because the friendship becomes unbalanced and remains so.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Have unbalanced and excessive cortisol?
    Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 11 Sep. 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 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
  • The stimuli included harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds (produced by shifting some frequencies of a previously harmonic sound), and sounds with beating and without.
    ScienceNow, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2012
Adjective
  • Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman uses her new book, The Double Tax, to demonstrate how gender and race intersect to create an unequal economic burden.
    Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But for one Reddit user, a second wedding anniversary became a painful reminder of unequal effort.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The free-for-all results in a neighborhood with a more disordered, organic layout than elsewhere in town.
    Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • And kids can develop disordered eating despite a parent's best effort to instill healthy eating habits.
    Adrienne Farr, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Set to become the world's longest asymmetric, single-mast bridge, the project is estimated to have cost $766 million, according to The Taipei Times, which said that the structure is expected to handle 24,000 to 25,000 visitors during holiday periods.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The pieces challenged traditional silhouettes, featuring asymmetric tailoring, romantic organza overlays, and fragmented Cubist forms that danced on the body as the models walked.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This might seem to be an incongruous statement for a celeb touting a resume with more than 60 film credits (six of which broke the $100-million box office ceiling)—a feat that would no doubt require leaning into boldness and versatility.
    Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The colors were not incongruous with the 18th century, but Canonero said Coppola’s suggestion helped focus her color choices.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Disharmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disharmonic. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.

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