All 6 Uses of
incongruous
in
Middlemarch
- Does it seem incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as a discoverer?†
Chpt 2 *
- He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman—incongruous even with his habitual foibles.†
Chpt 2
- The bright fire of dry oak-boughs burning on the dogs seemed an incongruous renewal of life and glow—like the figure of Dorothea herself as she entered carrying the red-leather cases containing the cameos for Celia.†
Chpt 3
- The black procession, when dismounted, looked the larger for the smallness of the churchyard; the heavy human faces and the black draperies shivering in the wind seemed to tell of a world strangely incongruous with the lightly dropping blossoms and the gleams of sunshine on the daisies.†
Chpt 4
- Raffles, walking with the uneasy gait of a town loiterer obliged to do a bit of country journeying on foot, looked as incongruous amid this moist rural quiet and industry as if he had been a baboon escaped from a menagerie.†
Chpt 4
- Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(incongruous) out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness