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Inconsistent   /ˌɪnkənsˈɪstənt/   Listen
Inconsistent

adjective
1.
Displaying a lack of consistency.  "Inconsistent with the roadmap"
2.
Not capable of being made consistent or harmonious.
3.
Not in agreement.  Synonym: discrepant.





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"Inconsistent" Quotes from Famous Books



... thus became a victim of English diplomacy, but later he committed one of these impardonable faults which irritate all well-bred Cats in England. This little idiot was truly very inconsistent. Did he not bow to me in Hyde Park and try to talk with me familiarly as if we were well acquainted? I looked straight through him coldly and severely. The coachman seeing this Frenchman insult me slashed him with his whip. Brisquet was cut but not killed and he received ...
— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various
... all, there is some difference between me and you. It seems to me I would cut off my right hand sooner than keep on, from day to day, doing what I thought was wrong. But, then, my conduct is so inconsistent with my profession, I don't wonder ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... animosity, which, considering his long and close familiarity with the infamies of the rule of the Company's servants, was not unnatural, must be allowed, however, to have blinded him to the grave objections which really existed to his scheme. In the first place, the Bill was indisputably inconsistent with the spirit of his revered Constitution. For the legislature to assume the power of naming the members of an executive body was an extraordinary and mischievous innovation. Then, to put patronage, which has been estimated by a sober authority at about three hundred thousand pounds a year, into ...
— Burke • John Morley
... still on one side or the other in the contest between Labour and Capital; and I tried to think my way sternly through, and decide why it was my mind seemed to waver from one side to the other, and seemed so inconsistent and inefficient. ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee
... indifference or their laughter! And will he not bear back to his meditations a painful and disheartening sorrow, a gloomy discontent in that faith which takes in but a portion of those whom he wishes to include in all his blessings? Will he not be enfeebled by a distraction of inconsistent desires, when he feels so strongly that the faith which fills his heart, the circle within which he would embrace all he loves—would repose all his wishes and hopes, and enjoyments—is yet ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth


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