What is "cacophonous"

Usage examples of "cacophonous".

Great clouds of dust and smoke boiled up as the room filled with the sound of the cacophonous blast.

Tholian admiral shoved his underling aside, throwing his head back to release a cacophonous noise that Sulu could interpret only as a thunderclap of pure rage.

As an example, let me explain that the true Erewhonian names for Hanky and Panky, to whom the reader will be immediately introduced, are Sukoh and Sukop--names too cacophonous to be read with pleasure by the English public.

Yossarian, once he had plugged his headset back into the intercom system, after it had been jerked out when Dobbs wrested the controls away from Huple and hurled them all down suddenly into the deafening, paralyzing, horrifying dive which had plastered Yossarian helplessly to the ceiling of the plane by the top of his head and from which Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before.

I wanted to eat, crawfish done six different ways on a platter, and jambalaya and cold beer, with the jukebox playing the most cacophonous Cajun music I could have asked for.

Suddenly, the front door blew open with a bang, sending the bells into a brief cacophonous frenzy.

Already, he recognized some of the minds in that cacophonous thought storm.

With sickening thuds, axes joined the cacophonous din of death and cleaved helms, opened skulls, spilled brains.

There followed a rolling as of kettledrums, a booming and clanking, basins struck together, a gong rang out, and the end of it all was a tinkling, transitory, tragically cacophonous finale.

Roars and hoots and squawls and bellows rose to the heavens in a cacophonous chorus that never ceased.

As they approached the fair, Garion could hear a cacophonous tumult filling the aira sort of bawling clamor of thousands of voices shouting all at once.

Somewhere in the cacophonous gearbox of his brain, he heard the hiss of a petcock, blowing off steam.

The result cannot but be a race of churlish, cacophonous hybrids, whose amorphous outcries will waver uncertainly betwixt prose and verse, absorbing the vices of both and the virtues of neither.

The parade was now going around the track of earth, and all the contrade at once were doing the flag whorls, the flings, the arabesques to continuous plaudits of the throng and the cacophonous blare of many brass bands.

He sat in a darkened lorcha, anchored along the east bank of one of the myriad northern tributaries of the Huang Pu, There, amid the cacophonous calls of the night birds, the enginelike whirring of the insects, he sat with his youngest brother.