An inharmonious (or incongruous) mixture of architectural styles. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : It was unpleasant to spend an evening with such an inharmonious group. From Dictionary.com.
From the parlor at the left came the strains of giddy, inharmonious music, laughter, and a medley of voices. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Carl] Reference
This inharmonious relationship significantly slowed the progress of scientific discoveries and advancements, compelling scientists to work in secret out of fear of the. From Wordnik.com. [The heart and cardiovascular system in the Qur'an and Hadeeth - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In what is, by now, a familiar Budget-time story, Alistair Darling is fighting the good fight against some of Brown's most inharmonious fiscal brainwaves. From Wordnik.com. [Darling contra Brown, Part 573] Reference
Of course the therapist cannot change the groups and the general inharmonious condition of today's society, a society that can be considered to be in a pathological state. From Wordnik.com. [Synthesis in Psychotherapy, By Roberto Assagioli] Reference
There is beauty, though you need to dig deep, in the inharmonious too. From Wordnik.com. [Soaring birds that transform into hearts - So Cute!(?) and other thoughts...] Reference
I wasn't too enamored of Dewar's either, a whisky that, in striving for complexity, ends up an inharmonious muddle of flavors. From Wordnik.com. [What to Down in a Down Market] Reference
If your thought is constructive and harmonious, the result will be good; if your thought is destructive or inharmonious, the result will be evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Key System] Reference
If your thought is constructive and harmonious, the result will be called good; if your thought is destructive or inharmonious, the result will be called evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Key System] Reference
An inharmonious mingling of objective reality and illusion. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-23] Reference
The organism sleeps poorly, put out of sorts by a bad bed; a part of it monitors this inharmonious state, and acts so as to achieve greater equilibrium. From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
In fact, you will never be able to get in touch with these vibrations if your body and mind are full of unstable, unhealthy, inharmonious, and conflicting vibrations. From Wordnik.com. [CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE] Reference
It is a riot of colors; a clashing palette of inharmonious wonder. From Wordnik.com. [The rites of Spring] Reference
The Consort was delighted by her lord's virtue; there was nothing in which they were inharmonious. From Wordnik.com. [Empresses and Consorts] Reference
It was like complaining about a couple of specks of dust on the Bayeux tapestry or one inharmonious note in a Mozart sonata. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
Simple expression has the same advantage over flowery language as a simple and artistic room has over a room filled with gaudy, inharmonious embellishments. From Wordnik.com. [Book of Etiquette, Volume 2] Reference
There were nine in all, a mixed, inharmonious assembly, from which no experienced investigator could expect great results. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Mist]
Between these two extremes there intervene a hundred compromises by which minds and bodies less equally yoked contrive to muffle the discordant notes of an inharmonious wedlock. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Diffidentis] Reference
I asked, mindful of the inharmonious socks and tie. From Wordnik.com. [Simon the Jester] Reference
They are just as heavy and inharmonious as their name. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's School] Reference
All changed their nature by restless and inharmonious mingling. From Wordnik.com. [The Emperor — Volume 10] Reference
Some of these circumstances are alike; but in many very important particulars dissimilar and inharmonious. From Wordnik.com. [Lunsford Lane; or, Another Helper from North Carolina.] Reference
This disturbance, as we shall see further on, led to inharmonious relations between Mr. Cooper and Mr. Lee. From Wordnik.com. [Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.] Reference
The Chinese are a noisy people, their language is inharmonious, and the lower class male voices, at least, are harsh and coarse. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference
The apocalyptic effect of the scene surrounding her was, indeed, not inharmonious, and afforded an appropriate background to her intentions. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
This second Eumus strode hastily down the forest glade, driving before him, with the assistance of Fangs, the whole herd of his inharmonious charge. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
The azure blue of the sweater she wore presented an inharmonious note on the field of velvety green; -- it was strangely out of place, he thought, -- almost an offence to the eye. From Wordnik.com. [Green Fancy] Reference
We learn to live with her, as people learn to live with fretful or violent spouses: to dwell lovingly on what is good, and shut our eyes against all that is bleak or inharmonious. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Travel] Reference
Rosse existed, till his inharmonious voice burst on their unwilling ears. From Wordnik.com. [Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund] Reference
For the last two years all around me has grown silent, and my occasional contact with the outer world is inharmonious and dispiriting. From Wordnik.com. [Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2] Reference
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam. From Wordnik.com. [Essays: Second Series (1844)] Reference
The green woods waved their boughs majestically, while the dying were spread beneath their shade, answering the solemn melody with inharmonious cries. From Wordnik.com. [II.8] Reference
Still, for anyone who is interested, and who can speak what Walpole called "the most meagre and inharmonious of tongues". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
This situation might eventually force Livni to spend a lot of time and energy trying to appease her inharmonious coalition partners and convince them to stay in the government. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
Nor with the harp's delightful melody Mingle his odious inharmonious fame. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
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