incongruously
Example Sentences
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When Pascal finally slaps Phoenix across the face, the joke is gone and what’s left is a petty, pathetic standoff, scored to Perry’s incongruously perky anthem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
My mind incongruously goes to amniocentesis, the dread prenatal test I underwent two decades earlier during my first pregnancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Most incongruously of all, outside a makeshift plastic doorway on a corner of the ground floor, next to piles of rubble and rubbish, stands a headless mannequin, wearing a wedding gown.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
Kissinger was pudgy and messy but incongruously acquired a reputation as a ladies’ man in the staid Nixon administration.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Someone’s phone is ringing, an incongruously joyful and upbeat song.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
