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Definition of Incongruously
1. Adverb. In an incongruous manner. "His shirttails stuck out from his tuxedo pants somewhat incongruously"
Definition of Incongruously
1. Adverb. In an incongruous manner. ¹
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Definition of Incongruously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incongruously
Literary usage of Incongruously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"The volume concludes, a little incongruously, with a very pious and very long
poem named ' Non omnis moriar.' Meanwhile Daniel had been making a reputation ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... that Vossius does here also seem incongruously to make both the civil and
poetical theology, as such, to philosophize ; whereas the first of these was ..."
3. A Fragment on Government by Jeremy Bentham, Francis Charles Montague (1891)
"... any thing that goes before is a incongruously in- certain executive power,
that now, for the first time, troduced. . . bolts out upon us without warning ..."
4. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1881)
"the Judicial Statistics are incongruously attached, great praise for his unwearied
attention to the compilation of these statistical tables. ..."
5. The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas (1822)
"It is a stone building, consisting of a lofty nave, two auf», und в chancel.
The latter is most incongruously fitted up in the modern taste. ..."
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