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Recent Examples of cacophonous The two primary action scenes are cacophonous and unexpected, exactly how Homicide always did it. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024 Berger made a cacophonous, confusing mess of the anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front back in 2022, and mistook its profound statements about the toll of conflict as an excuse for self-conscious seriousness drenched in bloody sturm-und-drang spectacle. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024 Download more than a few apps and the notifications become a non-stop, cacophonous waterfall of nonsense. David Pierce, WIRED, 23 July 2017 The hotel sits close to Hoi An’s attractions while offering a quiet respite from the city’s lively, often cacophonous, streets. Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cacophonous 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cacophonous
Adjective
  • Alecia lets out a shrill whistle and the shadowy figures of our campmates stand up around the fire, applauding.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Like, watched it all the way through from the shrill opening filled with obnoxious kids to the leadenly staged slapstick climax?
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • These songs all have a beautiful sadness to them and have a pop mentality, but there is always something dissonant or tense about them at times, musically.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Relationships between objects are often obscure, dissonant.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • His personal airplane, a noisy 727, is banned from takeoff and landing between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The screen rolls out from underneath the keyboard, with a noisy motor taking a few seconds to turn the device into a laptop with a very tall display.
    Barry Collins, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, with a budget deficit looming next year and a mayor whose preferred mode of dealing with unpleasant fiscal realities is to hike taxes, revenue grabs like congestion pricing are always on the table.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Another surprise was how unpleasant emotions were often motivating for leaders.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Cacophonous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cacophonous. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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