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were incongruous
adjective
Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
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Exact(16)
Other scenes were incongruous.
Their words were incongruous on the air.
He warned that unending preparations for war were incongruous with the nation's history.
Midsentence, there they were, incongruous in a nightscape of crumpled leaves and Himalayan pine whose needles drooped like Spanish moss.
"We acknowledged that the ads for online gambling were incongruous with the programme content," the ASA said.
In downtown Bern, close to where Albert Einstein drafted his theory of relativity almost 100 years ago, Nico Maurer, 25, a waiter in a chic cafe, said the pope's views and strict church teachings were incongruous with Swiss modernity.
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His presence was incongruous in the extreme.
The name is incongruous, silly.
There is incongruous babbling about mythology.
The Crescent is incongruous for League One.
Their timing was incongruous: the czar was the moderate Alexander II.
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