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    incongruous


    1. A small queue of incongruous people had formed to the right of the entrance


    2. In fact she wore a long leather coat, a little incongruous for the summer day outside


    3. ‘It was just … just you saying that … it was so incongruous


    4. Over in the direction of the winding construction that would bring even more tourists up the mountain, incongruous dumper trucks and excavators rumbled about in clouds of silent swirling dust, chomping a way through the mountain bringing the future to the past and showing little respect, if any, for the feast


    5. ‘Good afternoon, Dave – how are things with you?’ came the warm Jamaican voice with its incongruous tinge of an East End accent


    6. The man had instantly appeared right in front of him, looking incongruous in a white suit jacket


    7. The sky was still an incongruous mixture of sunlight and dark, but now these areas were alternating, like dancing spotlights


    8. The corridors were lined with pale wallpaper, sporting an incongruous flower design that wound its way gracefully up the stairs with them as they walked


    9. he hesitated, it seemed so incongruous with that stiff figure on the


    10. It attempts to mask its inevitability by hiding behind youthful façades that make it appear incongruous beside younger styles and fashions

    11. The incongruous thought went through my head


    12. Her acceptance of teasing from male crew members seemed incongruous alongside her cold, swift skills in handling the boat in rough seas


    13. The other soldier seemed taken aback by the incongruous humor and shuffled himself on the sack uneasily, responding with childlike bitterness:


    14. Jade and Argyl continued speaking with her in words that seemed incongruous with what words the woman spoke to me


    15. This has led many times to the incongruous scene of herbivores slowly grazing across a meadow totally unaware of a predator lying quietly in wait, unseen in tall grass, downwind of his intended victims


    16. It was an incongruous reaction; one of elation interweaved with dismay


    17. so incongruous for such a place so far out in the Asian


    18. Rick frowned but did not say anything because something incongruous had stood out in the confusion of the last minute


    19. so that on Halloween we think that there is nothing incongruous


    20. They looked incongruous in suits and carrying briefcases

    21. " This seemed incongruous to him, but I made


    22. The mute beggar crouched in the courtyard, and there was none to see that the hands which held the severed head were quivering strongly—brown, sinewy hands, strangely incongruous with the bent body and filthy tatters


    23. The latter were incongruous, in view of her present environs


    24. gallantry and there was something incongruous in the idea of a disheveled seventy-year-old infatuated, lovesick woman


    25. There was something about this man which made his clerkly occupation seem incongruous


    26. I saw nothing odd or incongruous about having such a store in


    27. It seemed incongruous to Bill that the clergyman had


    28. The thought was incongruous


    29. Buddy and Daisy both had immense collections which seemed somewhat incongruous for a small P I ship to devote that much data storage to music and dramatics


    30. Menace drifted through the air, incongruous with the beautiful fourteen-year-old sitting on the sunny yellow comforter

    31. Thusly refocused, and with my sincere promise to pay closer attention to my own behavior, for days on end Bonnie returned to pointing out my simple verbal slips and incongruous acts of neglect, such as me saying “uh huh,” or leaving my lemonade glass on the kitchen counter next to the sink, not in it


    32. He was so incongruous in the garret surroundings that all my fond


    33. Frois couldn’t help glance at the Portuguese sword belt she wore, which made her look even more incongruous


    34. Holding the device toward him, she said, "His gradient for unexpected, incongruous actions


    35. We sat at firesides and gathered blankets about our shoulders, fending off the incongruous summer cold filling every corner of our little part of the world


    36. The incongruous presence of Hillary and


    37. ground floor when an inquisitive nurse could not help but notice the incongruous


    38. Carolyn also was being pulled forward quickly towards the odd, incongruous


    39. The incongruous clothing


    40. It was just as incongruous as seeing the

    41. That Tony had the hots for Lori, was as foolish as it was incongruous


    42. The room was cozy with a fire burning low in the fireplace on the far side of the room, incongruous with the thick air of devastation


    43. Yes, I know a warlock with a bad back sounds incongruous, but we hadn’t had a good healer among us since Dottie McAllister, my second cousin once removed (or something like that), passed away a few years ago


    44. Now, though, she shot me an incongruous smile and said, “Yes


    45. She leaned against the laboratory table, certainly an incongruous picture in her new role as contrasted with the stained and dirty background of paraphernalia of medico-legal investigation


    46. Inconsistent, complicated, incongruous


    47. He knocked on the door, which felt incongruous since he had gone in and out through this very door for twenty years without ever knocking


    48. She was led to the church, an incongruous pink and white structure at the back of a small tight compound


    49. He had to stand on the edge of the weir before he could see the huts and the incongruous pink church at the end of the narrow dirt track that led off to his right


    50. The car, dimly lit from within, looked incongruous in the otherwise profoundly dark forest


































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    Synonyms for "incongruous"

    incongruous discordant inharmonious dissonant incompatible irreconcilable discrepant unbecoming absurd incoherent illogical contradictory contrary unfitting unusual bizarre alien

    "incongruous" definitions

    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness