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incongruous
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Definition:out of place; inappropriate
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The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.
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I could just make out that he had a book as well as a knife in his hand, and was still wondering how anything so incongruous had come in their possession
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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“Oh, a long-lost love of yours, was she?” I teased, enjoying the incongruous thought of him entwined in amorous embrace with the ample Mrs. Fitz.
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I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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In the organism of states such men are necessary, as wolves are necessary in the organism of nature, and they always exist, always appear and hold their own, however incongruous their presence and their proximity to the head of the government may be.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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