dissonant

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(of sounds or musical notes) sounding strange or unpleasant:

a dissonant combination of sounds

His compositions tend to be brutally dissonant and repetitive.

not agreeing with or not the same as other things, usually in a way that is strange or hard to accept:

Amid the celebrations over the passage of the reform bill this week, one dissonant voice could be heard.