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Definition of Incongruous |
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Incongruous
Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress, etc. Related Definitions: Action, An, As, Assimilating, Behavior, Capable, Congruous, Dress, Fitting, Harmonizing, Improper, Inappropriate, Incongruous, Inconsistent, Inharmonious, Not, Of, Or, Readily, Reciprocally, Remark |
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Incongruous Quotations
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. George Eliot I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. Alfred North Whitehead The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. James Payn A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. John Dos Passos |
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Incongruous Translations
incongruous in German is unvereinbar incongruous in Norwegian is urimelig, uoverstemmende incongruous in Spanish is incongruente |
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