Adjective : an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior. ,an incongruous mixture of architectural styles. ,actions that were incongruous with their professed principles.    From Dictionary.com. 

The worst of it was its utter incongruousness, the best -- so Alexina.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference

Did the incongruousness of these two messages not impress itself upon the producers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BIRDS ETCETERA—Birds, Birding, Birders, and Birdwatching] Reference

Maura, seeing in her mind's eye the incongruousness of the situation, started to laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous Lady]

This explains the incongruousness of the emotionally un-scary music against the scarified images.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Penn's Earlier Version Of 3 A.M. Ad Was Negative Direct Hit On Obama] Reference

It was only after he had sent off Madame's man-of-all-work with it that the incongruousness of challenging so old a man struck him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

By this time their guide had completely forgotten about the incongruousness of finding a ventriloquist's dummy at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and his inquiry was not repeated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

The following paragraphs develop this point, both by expressing the socio-political elements of Chambliss 'incongruousness and by suggesting how to develop these incongruities in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgia Needs a Nice Nerd December 2--A Post-Veteran's Day Meditation] Reference

It enjoins its members to apply their own 'spin' in letters to the media, “highlighting the incongruousness of a major opposition party wanting to stay in the EU, whilst rejecting both the Constitution and the euro and then expecting to negotiate with 24 others on the repatriation of our fishing and farming policy”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preening?] Reference

The incongruousness of (3) lends credence to (1) and (2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place]

For the first time the girl was painfully conscious of the incongruousness of her attire.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls] Reference

Yet it somehow jarred upon her nerves with its complacency and its utter incongruousness to her feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Trail and Town] Reference

That inequality and incongruousness in his writing which makes one revise his judgment at every tenth page.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grammar.] Reference

He found indeed a gleeful point in the joke of the incongruousness of his own presence amid such surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shuttle] Reference

He touched on the incongruousness of it all the beautiful day, high school football, all the color and pageantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News] Reference

I could buy this proposal if not for the incongruousness in the story that clearly point to some other explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

The boudoir was a large room, repeating on a bigger scale the incongruousness and ill fitting splendor of the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sappho of Green Springs] Reference

Besides the inherent incongruousness of this scene, there is also the innate optimism of such a commercial enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emdashes] Reference

In German sentiment, which runs over so easily into sentimentalism, a foreigner cannot help being struck with a certain incongruousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

Tomine's delicate linework and subtle coloring lend themselves well to the inherent incongruousness of selling ice-cream on a wintry day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emdashes] Reference

The incongruousness of this combination was, however, so evident that Italic capitals were soon designed and then the new fonts were complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters] Reference

At forty he looked back at the time when the incongruousness, the abnormality and the unsteadiness of the foundations on which such personages stood first struck him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference

It means the selecting and simplifying of essentials into an ideal shape; and therefore it implies the absence of all superfluity, incongruousness, bombast, extravagance or purposelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platform Monologues] Reference

It was the more crushing that there also seemed to be in this haughty woman the same incongruousness and sharp contrast to the plain and homely surroundings of the cottage that she remembered in HIM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sally Dows] Reference

The rollicking marine character of this refrain, despite its utter incongruousness, apparently struck him favorably, for he repeated it softly, occasionally glancing behind him at the master who was coldly absorbed at his desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cressy] Reference

He felt the incongruousness of his rough clothes in this atmosphere of after-dinner ease, the mud on his walking-boots, the clinging cotton-dust which seemed to have entered into the very pores of the skin; and again his annoyance escaped in his voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference

This preponderance in him of the reasoning over the intuitive faculties, the one always there, the other flashing in when you least expect it, accounts for that inequality and even incongruousness in his writing which makes one revise his judgment at every tenth page.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

The wild background of the Sierras, the pastoral hollow, the incongruousness of the figures, and the vivid color of the girl's red flannel petticoat showing beneath her calico skirt, that had been pinned around her waist, made a striking picture, which by this time had attracted all eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference

First his shoulders began to shake, then he burst into such a paroxysm of noiseless laughter that Erica, fearing that he could not restrain himself, and would be heard in the sick-room, pulled the towel from his forehead over his mouth; then, conquered herself by the absurdity of his appearance, she was obliged to bury her own face in her hands, laughing more and more whenever the incongruousness of the laughter occurred to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Two, a novel] Reference

In fact, this beginning is distinguished because Heinlein both causes a violent emotional reaction, and through the incongruousness itself hints at Friday’s true nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lensman's Children] Reference

't have found it possible to believe that the young man knew all about his distaste and its near approach to disgust, that he knew quite well what he thought of his ten-dollar suit, his ex-newsboy's diction, and his entire incongruousness as a factor in any circumstances connected with dignity and splendor.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Tembarom] Reference

Its incongruousness annoyed her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

His has been a career built on incongruousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference