Meaning of out of key | Babel Free

Definitions

Not in harmony (with); at odds (with).

figuratively

Examples

“It was a figure quite out of key with that lonely landscape, for it wore a panama hat and a neat dark suit, cut to the order of present day dandyism, which required coats to be tight-waisted up to the armpits and trousers belted in that they might bulge out into extra wide mathematically squared bags.”

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