All 9 Uses of
incongruous
in
The Fountainhead
- Quite incongruously, Keating felt as if a conveyor belt was under his feet, from the moment he crossed the threshold.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.†
Chpt 1.12
- He looked incongruous in the drawing room of her penthouse, his huge bulk perched on the edge of a delicate chair, a hunched gargoyle against the glowing spread of the city beyond a solid wall of glass.†
Chpt 1.12
- She had expected him to seem incongruous in her house; but it was the house that seemed incongruous around him.†
Chpt 2.2
- She had expected him to seem incongruous in her house; but it was the house that seemed incongruous around him.†
Chpt 2.2
- Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject.†
Chpt 3.1
- He could not force on himself, though he was seeking it fiercely, any other impression of her face than the incongruous one of undisturbed purity.†
Chpt 3.3
- He had no feeling of height here, and the buildings seemed to lie under his toes, not a real city, but miniatures of famous landmarks, incongruously close and small; he felt he could bend and pick any one of them up in his hand.†
Chpt 4.8
- The skyscrapers looked pink against the blue sky, an incongruous shade of porcelain on masses of stone.†
Chpt 4.12
Definition:
out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness