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Incongruously   /ɪŋkˈɔŋruəsli/   Listen
Incongruously

adverb
1.
In an incongruous manner.





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"Incongruously" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite as if she saw in people's eyes the reflection of her appearance and pace. She found herself moving at times in regions visibly not haunted by odd-looking girls from New York, duskily draped, sable-plumed, all but incongruously shod and gazing about them with extravagance; she might, from the curiosity she clearly excited in byways, in side-streets peopled with grimy children and costermongers carts, which she hoped were slums, literally have had her musket ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... becomes more plainly rural. The Mineola trolley zooms along, between wide fields of tilled brown earth. There is an occasional cow; here and there a really old barn and farmhouse standing, incongruously, among the settlements of modern kindling-wood cottages; and a mysterious agricultural engine at work with a spinning fly-wheel. Against the bright horizon stand the profiles of Garden City: the thin cathedral spire, the bulk of ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley


Words linked to "Incongruously" :   incongruous


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