His shirttails stuck out from his tuxedo pants somewhat incongruously. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior. ,an incongruous mixture of architectural styles. ,actions that were incongruous with their professed principles. From Dictionary.com.
He told the story in his incongruously pedantic fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
The remark seemed to fall incongruously and Carus hastened to explain. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Pickpocket]
But, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2009] Reference
His tone contained weariness and distaste, and, incongruously, a trace of longing. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The picture of the man's sensitive, intelligent face came incongruously into Jean's mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Town Like Alice]
The affairs of life and death mix themselves incongruously enough, in this confused world. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
"No!" he cried, his high plaintive voice issuing incongruously from his large hirsute face. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
The heavy royal sword in its jeweled scabbard was girded incongruously about his narrow loins. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
French words incongruously interspersed, is almost as "barbarous" Saxon as the Brut of Layamon. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
In fact, quite incongruously to the devastation of the site, there's almost a deathly silence here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2003] Reference
His second reaction was terror — terror incongruously mixed with relief — that the day had come. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
She wore an incongruously Mundane windbreaker jacket that did not succeed in making her less attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
It is adapted to a beautiful old air, "Logan Water," incongruously connected with some indecorous stanzas. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
She had a big-jawed face, uncompromising lips, and reddish-brown hair cut in an incongruously girlish bob. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
A ramshackle boathouse, incongruously resembling a Swiss chalet, clung to the bank across from the waterfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
It was a black-and-white photo of a little boy on a pinto pony that stood incongruously on a suburban street. From Wordnik.com. [html]
This is one of the many striking instances in which the past and the present are incongruously united in Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
The chair-back behind her fire-red head was incongruously carved with what seemed to be a mass of snakes fighting. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
They giggled constantly, turned and peeped at the Riflemen, and looked incongruously like three brides on horseback. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
The officer responded with a series of incongruously high‑pitched cheeping sounds, a form of laughter among his kind. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
Soon I came to the junction I'd memorised, a right-hander into Bridge Road at a branch of (incongruously) Dagenham Motors. From Wordnik.com. [Running London (A Marathon Endeavour): Leg 3 - Hounslow West to Kew Gardens] Reference
What a strange and fascinating man he was, one moment dour and unpleasant, the next moment dour and incongruously amusing. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
He wore unscuffed shoes instead of sandals, freshly pressed trousers, and somewhat incongruously, a florid Hawaiian shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
She sat beside him, close-wrapped in a heavy tweed coat, her grey cropped head incongruously crowned with a knitted red cap. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
Beyond lay an expanse of dark ocean, incongruously unruffled, a few drifting icebergs, and a sky strewn with brilliant stars. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
On the other hand, she had started shivering, her overheated skin breaking out incongruously with wave after wave of goose bumps. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
Then, incongruously, Beck condemned a protester seeking jobs for all unemployed workers with a sign asserting, "A job is a right.". From Wordnik.com. [Leo W. Gerard: Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs] Reference
She spoke, too, in the voice of a stranger, in accents that thrilled with a force produced incongruously from so emaciated a body. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
New Hampshire life and scenery, and an infinity of like material, are readably, and not incongruously, presented in her little book. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
The bubbles danced on the pavements, the gutters ran floods, and fragments of umbrellas and garments floated incongruously on the tide. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
They made a strange couple, the tall raw-boned young woman incongruously bedizened with costume jewellery, and the little sharp-eyed man. From Wordnik.com. [A Guilty Thing Surprised]
He straightened, looking vaguely down at fifteen inches of heavy stainless steel wrench incongruously sticking out sideways from its task. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
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