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  • adjective Not consonant; discordant.

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dis- +‎ consonant

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Examples

  • That there is an issue of partisanship between them is disconsonant ...

    Obama Spokesperson: He Doesn't "Hold Any Grudges" Against Lieberman, Won't Take Position On Whether To Oust Him From Committee 2009

  • Fragmentary, incomplete, disconsonant -- these terms -- dreamer and worker, poet and activist -- recur with frequency in his later writing.

    'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson' 2008

  • I was amazed by Medvedev's speech - hours after Obama stood at Grant Park in Chicago, just a couple of hours later - the first international leader to speak out was completely disconsonant with the rest of the world.

    CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2008 2008

  • Having said that, even considered on its own, it still seems to me to be a little disconsonant.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • The American idea of Islam, various, irregular, and charged with foreboding, is being built up at a time when the American idea of America is itself the subject of no little doubt and dispute, and the country as a whole seems embarked on a disconsonant and quarrelsome course.

    Philocrites: May 2003 Archives 2003

  • _ However, Crito, it would be disconsonant for a man at my time of life to repine because he must needs die.

    Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates 427? BC-347? BC Plato

  • As they cleared the western shore of the harbour, the wind was found to draw more up its coast, and fresh off the water, and a slight sea came rolling in, sparkling brightly in the sunshine, adding a life and beauty to the scene, with which the work of death going on was sadly disconsonant.

    The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Some of his ideas sound disconsonant to environmental groups, which he said are often right to criticize certain methods of oil-shale extraction but should know that the function of business is not to perform virtuous, costly acts for free.

    Durangoherald.com 2009

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