incongruous
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The incongruous editing is akin to zoning out while your buddy is talking, coming-to halfway through their thought and playing along like you understood where it was heading the entire time.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
It is a somewhat incongruous location for a visit by Pope Leo who, like Francis, has prioritised the poor and marginalised.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Meanwhile, by the late 1960s, his artist friends had embraced the Anti-Form movement, in which cheap and often unattractive materials were brought together in incongruous combinations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
They called the place La Ciénega, a corruption of an Indigenous word and an incongruous name — the swamp — in a desert wasteland.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
For a moment I was strolling again, finding childish comfort in its incongruous design.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
Vocabulary lists containing incongruous
Grade 10, List 2
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This Week in Words: September 29 - October 5, 2018
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