In a sentence
Six example sentences with incongruent, each labelled with its topic.
His cheerful words and his clenched hands were incongruent, and the interviewer trusted the hands.
Psychology
A steel and glass extension on a Tudor farmhouse looked incongruent with the whole village, and the planners refused it twice.
Architecture
The blue in the print and the blue on the screen were incongruent, and no profile the studio tried brought them together.
Photography
The cheerful melody and the grieving lyrics felt incongruent at first, and then the mismatch became the whole point of the song.
Music
The sales team's bonus targets were incongruent with the support team's, so one group promised what the other could not deliver.
Business
Voters noticed that the promise to cut taxes was incongruent with the promise to double spending on roads.
Politics
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