Sample sentences for INCONGRUOUS

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Definition

out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness

incongruous = out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead
He was so much taller and thinner than the other one that the two of them together looked rather incongruous.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

incongruous = out of place (together)

It seemed incongruous, against all logic, like a theorem you could never prove in geometry.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland

incongruous = lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness

It seemed incongruous to call The Day a war ... because the war really was all over in a single day.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

incongruous = out of place or inappropriate

To her right and left were the usual framed photos of stuffy alums, and to her left, incongruous rows of dented metal lockers.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

incongruous = lacking in harmony or compatibility

The high hairdo towered over her thin face like dunce cap, the white-blond hair utterly incongruous with her olive skin.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

incongruous = out of place

I could just make out that he had a book as well as a knife in his hand, and was still wondering how anything so incongruous had come in their possession when...
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island

incongruous = lacking in compatibility or appropriateness

The song was incongruous for October, but immensely moving, overwhelming, no matter what day or what month it was sung: ... I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

incongruous = out of place

On the outskirts of the capital they built a storybook cottage, two stories, fretted with eaves and little porches and window boxes, an incongruous Alpine look in the tropics.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

incongruous = out of place

It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

incongruous = out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness

a plan incongruous with reason
a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation
The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
Tears and Janet seemed so incongruous that Anne was honestly alarmed.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne of The Island
But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature...
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Notes from the Underground
In the midst of this incongruous group of dwellings rose the mansion of the Judge, towering above all its neighbors.
Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Pioneers
Does it seem incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as a discoverer?
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
I thought it could hardly have failed to strike them that there was something incongruous in him.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
There was something strangely incongruous in this Oriental figure framed in the commonplace door-way of a third-rate suburban dwelling-house.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Sign of the Four

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