(a.) Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mohan also said it amounted to an "innocuous British institution", a phrase that inadvertently emphasised its anachronistic nature.
(2) Since the National Assistance Act of 1948, incremental reform and the emergence of new legislative provisions has created a labyrinthine and anachronistic legal framework that is now scarcely fit for purpose.
(3) IPA Freedom to Publish Committee chair Bjørn Smith-Simonsen called the prosecution "undemocratic, anachronistic and unworthy of a modern and open society ... Sanci is being harassed for doing his publisher's job.
(4) It may seem anachronistic to examine professional responsibility in the context of prison psychiatry, which is a relatively unpopular and often controversial health service activity.
(5) Clearly, Page 3 is ridiculous and anachronistic, and it never fails to astonish my American friends when they come to Britain (although I'm not quite sure why they should be so shocked, seeing as most of them come from the city of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which is no slouch itself at reducing women to sex objects ).
(6) They want to get round the pesky one-person-one-vote principle that democracies anachronistically cling to in the face of economic reality.
(7) Mr Rusbridger said: "Although the attorney general has won this appeal, we are delighted that the House of Lords' ruling unanimously vindicates the Guardian's position: that this anachronistic law is incompatible with the Human Rights Act and should be repealed by parliament."
(8) I couldn't write music that was too anachronistic, or music that had nothing to do with myself as a composer, so the result was a compromise: the feel of 19th-century salon music with 20th-century minimalist techniques.
(9) Her appearance was preceded by an advertisement, taken out in Thursday's Guardian newspaper, in which she described the Falklands as "an anachronistic colonial case in the South Atlantic".
(10) Their football here was reminiscent of that epic, anachronistic run to the semi-finals when they co-hosted the tournament in 2002: fluid, quick to the ball, bright and alert and, when everything clicks, making traffic cones of opponents.
(11) de Kruif's book, a best-seller in its day and influential among the young for a generation, now seems gauche and anachronistic.
(12) At the time, I thought this show was creepy as hell, with its weirdly obsessive celebration of “la famiglia” and “la mamma”, which, in fashion terms, meant having models carrying babies down the runway while wearing dresses embroidered with Clinton Cards-like slogans, such as “I love you, mamma!” and “Per la mamma piu bella del mondo!” (“For the most beautiful mother in the world!”) Now it turns out that the most offensive thing about this collection wasn’t that it looked like it heavily ripped off Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress, which featured expressions of love from her children, but rather that it was an expression of Dolce and Gabbana’s hilariously anachronistic opinions about parenting.
(13) The paper digresses on events leading to anachronistic acquisition of immortal growth by normally dependent cells as well as on the time and path dependent incidence of cancer, in vivo.
(14) Many cannot believe that a female minister has launched such a sexist, ageist, anachronistic campaign in a country where many other urgent problems remain to be addressed.
(15) Will Sturgeon of the Media Blog agrees that the Moir and Gill cases don't compare for any number of reasons, principally because the critic "provided a detailed, factual account of an act we were meant to find distasteful", while Moir's article was "baseless speculation and ugly anachronistic opinion, which is far easier to tear apart".
(16) But in America, where certain politicians have about as much understanding of the realities of women's biology and contraceptive needs as a dung beetle, the issue of how much control a woman is allowed to have over her own body remains anachronistically fraught.
(17) The very use of the term "assassination" - however inappropriate - and the insertion of the arch, anachronistic phrase "the coward" sends a subliminal message to the audience that this is art, that the Brad Pitt up there on screen is not the Brad Pitt of Mr & Mrs Smith or Oceans 13, but the Brad Pitt of Seven Years in Tibet and Babel.
(18) One consequence stemming from the conceptualization of a compensation neurosis is implicit adherence to the anachronistic mind-body dichotomy.
(19) Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU Rightwing detractors decry him as an anachronistic firebrand cast in the Scargill mould.
(20) In an era of virtual reality, interactive Wiis and 3D TVs, it is difficult to imagine a more anachronistic attraction than a crowded dark room peopled with static wax models.
Incongruous
Definition:
(a.) Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
(3) We successfully applied it in the treatment of eight fractures of the shafts of the femur or tibia which would not unite because of infection, soft tissue interposition or gross incongruity of fragments.
(4) Fifty-nine Salter-Harris III and IV lesions of the medial malleolus, Tillaux fractures, and triplane fractures were examined after 9 (3-32) years to assess the frequency of late symptoms, deformity, joint incongruity, and secondary arthrosis.
(5) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
(6) Children recalled incongruent material more than congruent material on the comprehension-monitoring task.
(7) One joint was congruent, in agreement with the hypotheses, but the other was incongruent.
(8) Nothing in the present findings, however, is incongruent with the possibility of an association between low platelet MAO activity and bipolar affective disorder.
(9) Results showed significantly longer VRTs in the Accuracy group, and more errors in the Speed group to right-field projections (initial left hemisphere input) of the incongruent color-words during the color-naming condition.
(10) In addition, background music was either congruent or incongruent with the affect of an episode's outcome.
(11) Examination of 29 cases of fracture of the distal radius with restricted motion or persistent pain in 22 patients showed that most had been caused by incongruity of the distal radioulnar joint or by rotational malalignment in supination or pronation.
(12) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
(13) Congruent students did in fact achieve significantly higher cumulative GPA and science GPA than did incongruent students.
(14) In Experiment 1, at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 300 ms, congruous situations showed 59 ms of facilitation while incongruous situations did not differ from the baseline.
(15) The reasons for post-traumatic contracture of the elbow could be intrinsic such as interposed fragments, intra-articular adhesions, incongruity of the articular surfaces--or extrinsic--like contractures of the capsule and ligaments, adhesions of different layers, ectopic bone formations.
(16) In one, incongruous homonymous hemianopsia was accompanied by a decrease in visual acuity in one eye from chiasmal involvement.
(17) Congruence between the object display and the sentence produced significantly higher recall and clustering than the incongruence or control conditions.
(18) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
(19) Once incongruent persistence is suspected, the possibility of parental falsification of symptoms must be faced.
(20) The proverbs appeared either in their original form or with their final word changed to be incongruous with the sentence context.