out of keeping with

English

Prepositional phrase

out of keeping with

Not in harmony or conformity with.
- 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:
  THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s.
  A gaudy jacket, remarkably out of keeping with the contents, camouflages the weightiest and meatiest work on a railway topic since the war.

Antonyms

in keeping with

References

“out of keeping with”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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