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jarringly

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Etymology

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From jarring +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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jarringly (comparative more jarringly, superlative most jarringly)

  1. In a jarring manner.
    • 2005 August 2, Timothy Williams, “In Addition to His Pugnacity and Charm, He Can Write Poetry”, in The New York Times[1]:
      But Mr. Kleinzahler, 55, noted both for poems that jarringly marry the high and the low and for keeping his distance from the New York illuminati, has found himself late in his career in a rather awkward spot: the cusp of respectability in the cliquish world of poetry.