Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a jarring or discordant manner.
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- adverb In a
jarring manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a manner that jars and irritates
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Examples
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Meanwhile, Gizmodo's Sam Biddle used the data he found on his phone to post a map that he calls "jarringly accurate" of his travels up and down the East Coast over the past year.
Is your iPhone tracking your movements and keeping a secret file? 2011
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Overall the book is weaker, with less interesting characters, increased pointless violence if you recall the jarringly brutal execution of the first book, expect a lot more in this one and a tighter, if less interesting story line.
Domino Men Tripp 2009
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"Life in the zombie preserve really wasn't as bad as Cahill had expected" is the sort of jarringly phlegmatic line that keeps popping up in these stories, always to amusing effect.
Rapt in Translation; Zombie Zoology Sam Sacks 2011
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Opening the folder does show the location, but the library path suddenly and jarringly changes.
Windows 7′s Best Underhyped Features | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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In his 1995 Dreams, Obama shares a jarringly similar story from his own brief New York sojourn.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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That did give me pause, but “tailor” seemed jarringly out of place, so I just went with “seamstress.”
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The spots run in a relentless rotation, transitioning jarringly from one to the next, deep scary voice to deep scary voice.
Pa. voters under assault: Ads from 3 states and stacks of mail every day Philip Rucker 2010
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And she throws in — occasionally rather jarringly — some current English and even American slang usage.
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All about Smoke men tripped and fell, and several times he pitched forward himself, jarringly, on hands and knees.
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But mainly what strikes you looking back is the general sense of otherworldliness, the complete making over of every surface of our urban landscape since, right down to the spindly people, jarringly gawky and unself-conscious as they caper about on unfenced boundary edges.
My Beef with England: if only we had an Ian Botham now | Barney Ronay 2011
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