inharmony
nounUK /ɪnˈhɑːməni/ · US /ɪnˈhɑɹməni/
Etymology From in- + harmony.
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Lack of harmony.
- In general, it is in exceeding bad taste to dye either lashes or brows, for it usually brings them into inharmony with the hair and features.1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia:
- Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?1909, Ambrose Bierce, “What I Saw of Shiloh”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I:
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- Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony.1912, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 22, in The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance:
- Synonyms
- disharmony