Incongrous

Word of the Day for Saturday March 5, 2005
incongruous\in-KONG-groo-us\,

adjective:
1. Lacking in harmony, compatibility, or appropriateness.
2. Inconsistent with reason, logic, or common sense.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common Temper of Mankind is.
--Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

She made nightdresses and petticoats in the old-fashioned mode and sold them to a shop in the market town -- one of those exclusive little shops with a single garment and something imaginatively incongruous -- a monkey's skull or an old boot -- arranged in the window.
--Alice Thomas Ellis, Fairy Tale

They made an incongruous pair as they walked on: one was slight and dapper, some thirty-five years in age, with long, clipped mustaches, and dressed in the height of modern elegance, complete with pearl buttons and gold watch chain. The other, ambling a few paces behind, was a towering fellow with grizzled mutton-chop whiskers, whose ill-fitting frock coat barely contained a barrel chest.
--Ben Macintyre, The Napoleon of Crime
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incongrous size:


incongrous store front-organic vegetables over wild animals? It just confuses me.


Incongruent toy bucket-one of these things is not like the other:


Toy broom-doesn't seem very harmonious with the idea of playtime for kids:


Incongrous objects in normal places in TriBeCa: