incongruousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for incongruousness
Noun
  • Already concerned about the incongruity of having a comic yukking it up with what was happening with the AP and other outlets, the WHCA scrapped her.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Kirby’s incongruity is terrifying, so said someone much wiser than me.
    Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • The inconsistency confuses visitors and even enforcement officers.
    John Michael Pierobon, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
  • But much like their previous two matchups, inconsistency quickly crept in for the Sparks (1-3).
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • The incongruence between attacking the President for imposing new costs on small businesses through tariffs while also supporting state legislation to impose new costs on small businesses will be a politically inconvenient fact for Governor Pritzker to explain.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • In her Venn diagrams, Kim presses uncomfortable categories together, exploring the space of overlap as one of incongruence and friction.
    Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There were no disagreements, no incompatibilities revealed — something that never had the chance to go wrong.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • Ukraine’s Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko has called for fair adjustments, emphasizing the warrants’ incompatibility with Ukraine’s post-invasion economic realities.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
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“Incongruousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incongruousness. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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