All 3 Uses
incongruous
in
Childhood's End
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- When they had to go into the open for any length of time, they wore dark glasses which gave them a somewhat incongruous appearance.†
Chpt 6 *
- They walked for a few metres past a beautiful model of Paris, past art-treasures from a dozen centuries grouped incongruously together, past modem calculating machines and paleolithic axes, past television receivers and Hero of Alexandra's steam-turbine.†
Chpt 22
- There was something incongruous, even faintly absurd, about what he was doing.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(incongruous) out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)