out of keeping with

phrase

: not agreeing with or sharing important qualities with (something)

Her comments revealed a nervousness that seemed out of keeping with her calm appearance.

The modern decor was out of keeping with the church's architecture.

Examples of out of keeping with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Crosby, like the Doors’ Jim Morrison, whose father was an admiral in the Vietnam War, had a background out of keeping with his hippie image. — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023

The town is stately yet sedate, with a grandeur quite out of keeping with its compact size. — William Cook, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2022

Neighbors complained that the business would be out of keeping with the residential neighborhood nearby, and create noise and pollution. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 25 Oct. 2022

Both Biden’s assumptions about EV-component suppliers and his expectation that American companies will supplant them are out of keeping with reality. — Jordan McGillis, National Review, 29 Dec. 2020

Machen’s shift from the unnatural to the supranatural most dramatically appears in A Fragment of Life (1904), reprinted at the beginning of The House of Souls but quite out of keeping with that book’s overall tone of terror. — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020