incongruent

ADJECTIVE
  1. not congruent
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How To Use incongruent In A Sentence

  • Although I listened in silence, his comments were strikingly incongruent with the vivid descriptions that Chole's fishermen gave of the destruction that dynamiting caused the reefs.
  • Tian Guisen (1998) applies recent theories of linguistics to the analysis of incongruent and deviant form at pragmatic level, i. e. "Pragmatic Metaphor".
  • For just like adding plastic to groundfill while complaining of global warming, it is internally incongruent to preach peace and understanding via corrupted messaging.
  • In the first, the phylogenies of different genes were shown to be incongruent, indicating recombination between the genes.
  • But when many states threaten each other for incongruent purposes, who is to do the deterring, and in the face of what provocation?
  • If your aesthetic is a surreal one, this isn't a problem; you can easily come up with titles that not only aren't jarringly incongruent with the music, but actually contribute to the overall effect. The song that goes like this
  • Many find the enforcement of minor infractions, such as standing on the tree planters or chalking on the ground, incongruent with perceptions of public space.
  • Their quest for ‘urban realism’ or neo-realism suggest that metafiction is not by definition incongruent with realism, and that referentiality remains a powerful preoccupation in many strands of postmodern fiction.
  • Before I met my acupuncturist, my love life was in disarray: acute disappointments, incongruent pairings, missing variables (sense of humor, stable income, deodorant).
  • We will further democracy and the majesty of the people by empowering unelected Guardians to restrain the people when their choices are incongruent with that of the Ivy educated.
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