swear at

Definitions

1. 1

   To be disagreeably incongruous with, especially in colour

   To be disagreeably incongruous with, especially in colour; to clash.

   • […] in several instances there was another and quite a different red in the gown, which “swore” at its relative on the parasol.
   • Coal-scuttle poke-bonnets, short and scanty skirts, huge splay feet arrayed in indescribable shoes and boots, colours which swore at each other - these were the outward and visible signs of the British fair of that day.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swear, at.

   • One protester was arrested after swearing at a police officer.

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