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  • adverb In an incongruent way.

Etymologies

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incongruent +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The color of her aggravation rose in her cheeks, and she looked, incongruently, quite lovely.

    The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010

  • The color of her aggravation rose in her cheeks, and she looked, incongruently, quite lovely.

    The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010

  • Still, there are many worthwhile and enjoyable things about the piece despite its overly dark and incongruently pessimistic ending.

    Sunday, Pasadena 2007

  • Still, there are many worthwhile and enjoyable things about the piece despite its overly dark and incongruently pessimistic ending.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • The worst examples, however , miss the boat on all counts; they impose dull, repetitive forms plunked down incongruently on a highly manipulated landscape.

    Build Blog » Planned Communities 2009

  • It is only a bad thing when we are using these forces incongruently to exploit others . . .

    Cheney and Bush . . . using NLP to hoodwink America 2004

  • It is only a bad thing when we are using these forces incongruently to exploit others . . .

    Life of Brian: 2004

  • The water had risen into the trees along the bank and was swollen with mud and cluttered with broken tree limbs and floating islands of green hyacinths that had torn loose from their root systems and were now blooming incongruently with yellow flowers.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • Even more incongruently, his magnolia trees grew to a huge size, dripping with flowers, his grapefruit trees bursting with golden orbs, without sunlight ever directly touching the leaves.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • The water had risen into the trees along the bank and was swollen with mud and cluttered with broken tree limbs and floating islands of green hyacinths that had torn loose from their root systems and were now blooming incongruently with yellow flowers.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

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