adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was dressed in a three-piece suit with an incongruous tie shaped like a fish.
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It seemed incongruous having a dance-band at the funeral.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All because of this burning, incongruous passion.
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Amid this busy prosperity it was curiously incongruous , unlike in Tunis or Cairo.
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Except that it seemed incongruous and yet traditional - we are overloaded with tradition.
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Four storeys high, square and turreted with pepper-pot towers; romantic, unexpected, incongruous .
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It depends upon the incongruous , perceiving what is out of place - which is usually us!
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Some seem flower-like yet when you touch them they have the incongruous scratch of stone.
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Then I noticed a most incongruous thing.
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We piled into its crowded bar, incongruous among rough seagoing types, and found ourselves a table by the window.