incongruously

adverb

as in inappropriately

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Recent Examples of incongruously Along beaches that had been stripped of their vegetation, icebergs sat incongruously high on rocks. — Megan I. Gannon, Scientific American, 6 May 2026 One side story, of a former pro athlete caught in a downward spiral of violence, addiction, and ill health, feels incongruously grim. — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Mar. 2026 What remains is an incongruously passive and intense ride that feels eerily algorithmic throughout. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026 Every surreal interaction, every drab office, every incongruously adoring wife is another turn through the same loop. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025 Also incongruously quick for his size is Tustin junior defensive lineman Jeremiah Williams (6-1, 311). — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025 Where to Stay Recently opened and incongruously-located inside the city's half-glitzy, half-tacky Phoenix MarketCity shopping mall, Design Hotel by jüSTa is a quirky option from the creative team at Urban Studio in Mumbai. — David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incongruously
  1. inappropriately
  2. improperly
  3. wrongly
  4. incorrectly
  5. unsuitably
Adverb
  • The attempt by former HFPA members to leverage the Golden Globe Foundation, an independent nonprofit, simply to secure Golden Globes tickets is an unfortunate distraction that inappropriately diverts resources from legitimate charitable causes.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 July 2026
  • The mother wrote in the complaint that Duffey had convinced her daughter to come to his hotel room on a trip and touched her inappropriately, sent her inappropriate messages and paid her to stay quiet about it.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 28 July 2026
Definition of inappropriately
Adverb
  • The judge is accused of improperly threatening to jail the DA and two other county prosecutors.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
  • The filing also claims that her case was improperly transferred from juvenile court to adult court, alleging that her trial and conviction ultimately violated her constitutional rights.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
Definition of improperly
Adverb
  • People get denied benefits, misrouted or wrongly flagged, and no breach ever triggers an alarm.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • The number of people wrongly registered grew by more than 100 by last year, but the state found that only about 30 ineligible voters had cast ballots.
    — Geoff Mulvihill, Twin Cities, 21 July 2026
Definition of wrongly
Adverb
  • Reuters — The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX jets registered in the US were incorrectly installed and need to be fixed.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • Senior engineering judgment—the ability to spot a bad architecture, understand why a system will fail under load, know when a business rule has been encoded incorrectly—has always been built through years of junior-level struggle.
    — Vaibhav Gujral, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of incorrectly
Adverb
  • The official investigation found no fault with either aircraft but that three planes had occupied the same airspace, which was deemed to have been unsuitably monitored over the Kharkiv region.
    — Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2026
Definition of unsuitably

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