Dissonant
Dissonant adjective - Marked by or producing a harsh combination of sounds.
Grinding and dissonant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grinding" instead an adjective "Dissonant".
Nearby Word: dissonance
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- As it starts to play for the third time, a dissonant counter-melody emerges—the song gets as dark as the retraux soundcard lets it, eventually grinding to a halt before restarting.
Source: Last Note Nightmare -
Dissonant Serenity: The activation of the Child Broiler, which entails the grinding-up of unwanted children and reforming them as identical, invisible nobodies, and the torching of Momoka's hand in the same scene are announced with generic cheerfulness by a factory floor foreman.
Source: Anime / Mawaru-Penguindrum
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