incongruously
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Minutes later he takes a break, during which a poster for the James Bond film No Time To Die briefly, and incongruously, comes up on the screen.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
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
Pudgy and messy, Kissinger incongruously acquired a reputation as a ladies’ man in the staid Nixon administration.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Every Sunday he arrived in his wine-dark Buick, a tall, prune-faced, sad-seeming man with an incongruously vital head of wavy hair.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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