discord

How To Use discord In A Sentence

• A letter to his wife in 1847 tells of a visit to the Brights at Rochdale; how 'John and I discorded in our views not a little', and how 'I shook peaceable Brightdom as with Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
• At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.
• Were it not so we would be the only Utopia on the globe -- a mythical Earthly Paradise, or a buried sea-city of Atlantis whose only discord is the music of its silver bells. The Conquest of National Fear
• The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
• Insana gula, insanae obstructiones, insanum venandi studium discordia demens. Anatomy of Melancholy
• The author, who seems to intend the character of Bonvolio as good, meant perhaps to shew, how the best minds, in a state of faction and discord, are detorted to criminal partiality. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
• There have been some recent studies using twins which show that there's a higher rate in the concordant, identical twins than in the discordant twins.
• A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord mong brethren.
• His great and wealthy enterprise constantly formed an apple of discord.
• Instead of personal gain-seeking being viewed as the mainspring of progress, it was perceived to sow the seeds for economic polarization, and hence social discord and decay.