inconcinne

comparative more inconcinne · superlative most inconcinne

1. obsoletedissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable

   Xuthus' exit has sharpness and rhetorical wit, with the inconcinne construction making the second line a drastic, even sarcastic aprosdoketon.

   2018, Gunther Martin, Euripides, "Ion": Edition and Commentary, page 309

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   You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle.

   1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness, page 183

   He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.

   2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages