INCONGRUITY


Meaning of INCONGRUITY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Another incongruity was that between de Gaulle's ambition and the resources at his disposal.

Behind their departing backs, Ladislaw laughs at the incongruity of the engaged couple.

Like his entire tenure as chairman, the scene had an element of incongruity that amounted to the surreal.

One was the incongruity between de Gaulle's ambitions and the needs of a nation on the breadline.

There is another sort of incongruity in the materials.

There were fatal incongruities about grandeur in the circumstances of 1944-46.

Thus Hazlitt piles up instances of how humour results from surprise, incongruity , absurdity and misunderstanding.

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