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  • noun Plural form of incongruity.

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Examples

  • The rustic-luxury genre recalls the incongruities of Marie Antoinette in her Versailles dairy farm.

    RUSTIC LUXURY 2007

  • Mr. Gryce recalled the incongruities, the inconsistencies and even the surprising contradictions which had often marked the conduct of men and women, in his lengthy experience with the strange, the sudden, and the tragic things of life, and slightly shook his head.

    Initials Only 2003

  • Mr. Gryce recalled the incongruities, the inconsistencies and even the surprising contradictions which had often marked the conduct of men and women, in his lengthy experience with the strange, the sudden, and the tragic things of life, and slightly shook his head.

    Initials Only Anna Katharine Green 1890

  • This work is also part of the larger Walkers series that includes performances in which actual walkers with sandwich boards create startling incongruities in environments as diverse as Hollywood, Death Valley, Speaker's Corner in London, and the Las Vegas Strip.

    Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

  • This work is also part of the larger Walkers series that includes performances in which actual walkers with sandwich boards create startling incongruities in environments as diverse as Hollywood, Death Valley, Speaker's Corner in London, and the Las Vegas Strip.

    Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

  • But as a town, Palm Beach is full of quirks and incongruities: The people who work here often can't afford to live here, for instance.

    Post-Holiday Partying in Palm Beach Marshall Heyman 2011

  • But there were incongruities: the minivan, the graffiti on the rail bridge underpasses.

    Abraham Lincoln rides to Washington, 150 years later 2011

  • This work is also part of the larger Walkers series that includes performances in which actual walkers with sandwich boards create startling incongruities in environments as diverse as Hollywood, Death Valley, Speaker's Corner in London, and the Las Vegas Strip.

    Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

  • You guys are always accusing me of getting things backwards, but I think you "dittoheads" have had incongruities repeated at you so often by shills like Rush that I think your synapses must be disrupted.

    Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

  • The band imprinted my vacation with incongruities: the clear blue beauty of the Aegean sea and the fuzz-fest mayhem of "Territorial Pissings", a hot shimmering Mediterranean sun infected with the chilling strains of "Polly".

    In search of Nirvana 2011

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