out of place

Speech parts

1. out of place - Adjective

2. out of place - Adverb

3. out of place - Phrase

4. out of place - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of an inappropriate or misapplied nature

in a setting where one is or feels inappropriate or incongruous

Alternative names

out-of-place

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Examples

She gave me a wide-eyed, innocent smile that looked as out of place on her as it would have on a desert scorpion. George Alec Effinger

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Jawaharlal Nehru

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were. Erno Rubik

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor. Hattie McDaniel

At table bashfulness is out of place. Italian Proverb

When an observation by joke is true, it is out of place and ill-natured. Latin Proverb

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