Sample sentences for INCONGRUITY

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the quality of being out of place

I might give her something, for the incongruity of it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

Strange incongruity in a State called free!
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
I almost want to laugh at the incongruity of it.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
There was, for all this, a tremendous incongruity in Lincoln as a war leader.
Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
"And what reason is that?" asked Hester, half smiling at the absurd incongruity of the child's observation; but on second thoughts turning pale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
Yet when he opened his eyes, the annoying incongruity was still there.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
He'd make the prints sharp and crisp to accent the incongruity.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
Some of the clockers, training their field glasses on Tom Smith's face as he led the horse back to the barn, noticed a glaring incongruity.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
Rachel continued to be happy, involved with life, only slightly confused by the incongruities which faced her each morning when she awoke.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Henchard as a Justice of the Peace may at first seem to be an even greater incongruity than Shallow and Silence themselves.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
Nor, strictly investigated, is there any incongruity in this comparison.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The incongruity between the men's deeds and their environment was great.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
The only incongruities on this striking corporal were his hands—huge, brutish, animal things that one man would liken to paws.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Of the fourth possibility, we know that incongruities, comic or otherwise, fascinate the novelist.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Neither he nor she had had any such adventure before and neither was conscious of any incongruity.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
She smiled at such incongruities.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
It was like weakness in a good woman, or blood on satin; one of those terrible incongruities that shake little things in the back of the brain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise

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