All 6 Uses of
incongruous
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- In that way (that is, with a view to the future) it is not the Church that should seek a definite position in the State, like 'every social organization,' or as 'an organization of men for religious purposes' (as my opponent calls the Church), but, on the contrary, every earthly State should be, in the end, completely transformed into the Church and should become nothing else but a Church, rejecting every purpose incongruous with the aims of the Church.†
Chpt 2
- Even when he was excited and talking irritably, his eyes somehow did not follow his mood, but betrayed something else, sometimes quite incongruous with what was passing.†
Chpt 2 *
- And yet this intonation and manner of speaking impressed Alyosha as almost incredibly incongruous with the childishly simple and happy expression of her face, the soft, babyish joy in her eyes.†
Chpt 3
- For a man to give his last four thousand on a generous impulse and then for the same man to murder his father for the sake of robbing him of three thousand—the idea seemed too incongruous.†
Chpt 12
- Because he was of the broad Karamazov character—that's just what I am leading up to—capable of combining the most incongruous contradictions, and capable of the greatest heights and of the greatest depths.†
Chpt 12
- One cannot imagine anything more incongruous with the actual fact than this legend of the little bag.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(incongruous) out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness