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incongruous
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  • It seemed incongruous, against all logic, like a theorem you could never prove in geometry.  (source)
    incongruous = lacking in harmony or 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.  (source)
    incongruous = out of place
  • He was so much taller and thinner than the other one that the two of them together looked rather incongruous.  (source)
    incongruous = out of place (together)
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  • 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.  (source)
    incongruous = out of place
  • It looked like an ice-cream vendor's pushcart, parked incongruously on the badlands.†  (source)
  • It seemed incongruous to call The Day a war ... because the war really was all over in a single day.  (source)
    incongruous = out of place or inappropriate
  • A vintage International Harvester from the 1940s, the derelict vehicle is located twenty-five miles west of Healy as the raven flies, rusting incongruously in the fireweed beside the Stampede Trail, just beyond the boundary of Denali National Park.†  (source)
  • 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...  (source)
    incongruous = lacking in compatibility or appropriateness
  • Someone's phone is ringing, an incongruously joyful and upbeat song.†  (source)
  • The room suited my father perfectly: it was larger than life and wonderfully incongruous.†  (source)
  • Aldous puts a giant paw on my shoulder, incongruously gentle.†  (source)
  • His gray-flecked temples seemed incongruous with his otherwise youthful appearance.†  (source)
  • The Hegemony spinship was incongruously streamlined with its four sets of boom arms retracted in battle readiness, its sixty-meter command probe sharp as a Clovis point, and its Hawking drive and fusion blisters set far back along the launch shaft like feathers on an arrow.†  (source)
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