incongruously Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ɪnˈkɒŋ.ɡru.əs.li]
  • Us [ ɪnˈkɑːŋ.ɡru.əs.li]

Meaning of incongruously In English

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Examples of incongruously

  • Ordinarily, such sequences produce only bathos when their final terms are so incongruously weighty (and, as in the case of "sacrilege," imperfectly rhymed).

  • Incongruously, it would imply that underlying coda geminates lose their geminate status whenever they are placed in intervocalic position.

  • But we should expect older and newer technologies, like older and newer economic practices and mentalities, to co-exist, however incongruously, during a time of change.

  • Even more incongruously it had made him a figure to be courted, albeit not always with great appetite, by the cultural and artistic intelligentsia that had heretofore scorned him.

  • What stuck out rather incongruously in the two headings were the repeated apostrophes, which were large enough to be cut out and mounted by collectors of such ephemera.

  • Combined with their championing of working-class popular culture and (more incongruously) with their espousal of social reforms like old-age pensions, was a definite and electorally effective liberal message.

  • Kerman rests content, it seems, with his original view that the libretto is cynical and the music incongruously profound.

  • They are small passenger cars and, rather incongruously, sodium peroxide.

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