Definition of "disharmonious" []

• Lacking in harmony. (adjective)

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• "American families were more than twice as likely as those living anywhere else to have so-called disharmonious relationships, or those defined by strong negative feelings, such as disagreement and tension, without any strong positive feelings, including feelings of closeness and amicability."
• "As I'm sure you all know, in China, as opposed to the U.S., often asking questions that begin with "Why …", or 'making waves', are seen as being 'disharmonious', and thus undesirably troublesome."
• "In the combination are: statecraft defect: poor governance], terrible geopolitical constraints, dominating class structures, poverty and unequal development, matched by 'disharmonious' religious education."