unharmonious


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Synonyms for unharmonious

characterized by unpleasant discordance of sound

devoid of harmony and accord

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Synonyms for unharmonious

not in harmony

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Scott's son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart, wrote that on purchase the 'farm-house [...] was small and poor [...] in front appeared a filthy pond covered with ducks and duckweed, from which the whole tenement had derived the unharmonious designation of Clarty Hole'.
The massive complex isn't only incompatible and unharmonious, it's unsafe.
As leaders sing discordant and unharmonious "dialogue" themed tunes, youth and their supporters chant "change now" revolutionary beats.
Noise is any kind of sound that is perceived as unharmonious or disorganized.
The West's unharmonious response to Putinism to date has done nothing to dampen the Russian leader's confidence.
However, this matter clearly contributed to an "unharmonious relationship between [the Conservative] Party [to which both Churchill and Eden belonged] and the Government," as John Ramsden put it.
Building upon the basic understanding that the left brain is the thinking side and the right brain is the feeling side, the left part of the brain was found to be more stimulated during cognitive analysis of music or during sad or unharmonious sounds, such as single predicable chords, whereas the right part of the brain is stimulated more with happy and pleasurable sounds (Salimpoor, 2013).
Surrealism raised this sort of visualization of the unharmonious, dissonant side of human existence to the status of a program.
(51) Mawbey appears largely to have concurred with Cooke's poor opinion of 'William and Margaret' (Cooke called it 'extremely ill-wrote, and unharmonious'); but in 1792 another contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, 'A.S.' , came to its defence (it has met, from readers of every description, a warmth, and universality of admiration, which it is the lot of few poetic compositions to attain').
These papers converge in the recognition of the simultaneous ordinariness and the extraordinariness of imperfection: not being perfect isn't, they suggest, in other words, unusual, but it is also the exceptionally rich, messy, mistake-making, unharmonious space of learning.
3, 2011), available at http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/file/news/patent_pilot_program_press_release (introducing pilot program to increase judicial expertise in patent lawsuits); Rose, supra note 132 (exposing Myriad holding as unharmonious with Constitution).
It all looks too busy to the naked eye, but with art lover goggles its not hard to get drawn into the unharmonious painting with both negative and positive shapes and still come out with an idea of the exhibition's overriding flavour.