incongruity

“I can see that happening. It’s not urgent,” he said, pointing out the incongruity of the ask when “you have more oil than almost anyone else.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

Through tears, she noted the incongruity of the moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

The tool works through an algorithm which assesses incongruity.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024

One might also ponder the moral incongruity of Downey embracing an Oscar nomination for a performance designed to skewer such validations of reprehensible acts committed in the name of exercising one's craft.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023

A dead bird is an incongruity, more startling than an unexpected live bird, sure evidence to the human mind that something has gone wrong.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Technical strategists see incongruities like this as a sign that the index’s strength has been predicated, somewhat precariously, on the success of a minority of its stocks, making it more vulnerable to adverse developments.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

And when we point out incongruities or inefficiencies in these policies, we’re told: No, you’re inefficient and lazy.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025

But longtime Mexico City denizens point out incongruities: the prevalence of palm trees, misnamed or nonexistent institutions, a court scene with a jury even though criminal jury trials do not exist here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

The incongruities in park guidelines and messaging stretch back to the post-town-hall banning of tripods from the prairie.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

Ellis could by no means repine at a separation, that saved her from the pride and malevolence of Mrs Maple and of Ireton, and from the distressing incongruities of Elinor.

From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny