Foreign and Jarring

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Foreign adjective - Being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own.

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Jarring and foreign are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Jarring" instead an adjective "Foreign".

Nearby Word: foreigner

Jarring adjective - Causing a strong emotional reaction because of unexpectedness.

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Foreign and jarring are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foreign" instead an adjective "Jarring".

Nearby Words: jarred, jarringly

Similarly they will judge/review many things from an American viewpoint, which can sometimes be bizarre or even jarring to their foreign viewers.

Source: Creator Provincialism
Soundtrack Dissonance: It's a little jarring to hear, in the ending montage, peppy music playing as the foreign couple gets blown to Kingdom Come, even if they were villains.

Source: Video Game / Ghost Trick
Many classic Hollywood film directors were foreign-born, but the all-American iconography of their movies makes it quite jarring to hear them speak (Billy Wilder, for example).

Source: Vocal Dissonance

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