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

We raise these concerns at a time when investor reactions often seem incongruous with reality.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

The talent show seemed a somewhat incongruous place for the list to be read out, given that one of the acts being honoured was the famously gloomy Manchester post-punk band Joy Division.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 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

With the Constitution now ratified and the new federal government safely in place, Franklin resumed his plea that slavery be declared incongruous with the revolutionary principles on which the nation was founded.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis