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incongruently

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English

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Etymology

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From incongruent +‎ -ly or in- +‎ congruently.

Adverb

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incongruently (comparative more incongruently, superlative most incongruently)

  1. In an incongruent way.
    • 2005, Charles E. Gannon, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30:
      The originally Teutophilic narrative veers decidedly in a new direction when an entry from a Francophilic 'American correspondent,' whose language is incongruently lush and hyperbolic, depicts Germans using tactics and combat procedures ...