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UK
/ɪnkˈɒnɡɹuːəsli/
]
[ US /ˌɪŋˈkɔŋɹuəsɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪŋˈkɔŋɹuəsɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in an incongruous manner
his shirttails stuck out from his tuxedo pants somewhat incongruously
How To Use incongruously In A Sentence
- It turned out I was wrong - it was just yet another lanky type dressed incongruously in white shirt, blazer and jeans, and sporting that trademark upper-class floppy hair.
- Prime minister's questions is principally for backbenchers, he said incongruously. Trouble in the House: is a bitter class divide fuelling David Cameron's dislike of Commons Speaker John Bercow?
- They weren't the pot-bellied kind, more the underwear-model kind; tanned, perspiring, incongruously foppish hair, stubbled, one of them hanging off the end of a smoke, in dark blue cargo pants, boots, tool belts and nothing else.
- He supplied us with fragments of griff as war news is incongruously termed in prison dialect. Work Camp 10760 L
- A motorcycle and sidecar stood somewhat incongruously outside a yurt, a large domed tent constructed of sections of felt stitched over a framework of laths.
- Based, quite incongruously, in the U.K, this company has a staff of 18 analysts who break down every game. It's the Offensive Line, Stupid
- My favourite old building is the splendid 1825 crescent of houses that sits incongruously on the front. Times, Sunday Times
- There was still a set of those fascinating volumes on the living-room bookshelves , incongruously kept upright by a bookend of Beethoven at his piano.
- In many districts, the only things still standing after the December 26 quake were the palm and eucalyptus trees, incongruously sprouting amid the piles of bricks and twisted metal.
- Every station is embellished and decorated: delicate stars and hammers and sickles somewhat incongruously scattered about as decorative motifs.