Jarring

When I tried to move the desk, one of its legs made a jarring sound as it scraped across the floor.

It's very jarring to hear uncensored songs with explicit lyrics playing in stores.

The transition between the scenes was jarring.

The old man spoke and, with a feeble throw, / at Pyrrhus with a harmless dart he drave. / The jarring metal blunts it, and below / the shield-boss, down it hangs, and foils the purposed blow.

That's a jarring choice of words.

To keep a nut from unscrewing by jarring, etc., screw it down until it jams, as it is called, firmly against the surface it rests on.

He felt the sun very hot upon his shoulders, and he heard the harsh, insistent jarring of a tern that hovered and circled with forked tail and sharp white wings in the sunlight just above their heads; but all the time he stood staring into the good old gentleman's face.

The rings of iron that on the doors were hung / Sent out a jarring sound

The large cement works nearby are served by sidings, and strike a sudden jarring industrial note in the midst of the rural downland scene.

Slackware does not include a graphical installer. Its package manager does not perform any dependency resolution. This can be jarring for new users, particularly within the last few years, but it also enables a deeper understanding of the system.