out of keeping with

English

Prepositional phrase

out of keeping with

1. 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.