All 3 Uses of
incongruous
in
Childhood's End
- When they had to go into the open for any length of time, they wore dark glasses which gave them a somewhat incongruous appearance.†
Chpt 6 *
- They walked for a few metres past a beautiful model of Paris, past art-treasures from a dozen centuries grouped incongruously together, past modem calculating machines and paleolithic axes, past television receivers and Hero of Alexandra's steam-turbine.†
Chpt 22
- There was something incongruous, even faintly absurd, about what he was doing.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness