uncongenial
IPA: ʌnkʌndʒˈinjʌɫ
adjective
- Not congenial, compatible or sympathetic.
- Not appropriate; unsuitable.
- Not pleasing; disagreeable.
- (botany) Incapable of being grafted.
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Examples of "uncongenial" in Sentences
- Carter was undoubtedly an uncongenial companion.
- So uncongenial proved this occupation that he ran away.
- They were wrapped in an uncongenial and frosty imperviousness.
- She liked Hogg and loved Leigh Hunt, but Peacock was uncongenial to her.
- Some of those arguments seem insane to people who find them uncongenial.
- However, the uncongenial work injured his health and he returned to London.
- This life he soon found uncongenial, and decided on becoming a mining engineer.
- However, Bowlby found the law uncongenial and felt drawn to a career in writing.
- He believed that I had marked artistic talent and that I should not be forced to waste it in uncongenial work.
- Mary, remitted from beloved friends to an uncongenial stepmother, was doubtless on her part pining for sympathy.
- Frankly, we are concerned about your performing the Twist, in an era uncongenial to it, and how it might aggravate your sciatica.
- "uncongenial," the "friendly parting before any bitterness creeps in," and the "free to decide our lives in some happier and wiser way," rang false.
- That single cell contracts and recoils from the things in its environment uncongenial to its constitution, and the things congenial it draws to itself and absorbs.
- After a short and "uncongenial" employment with Hallensteins, Charles became one of New Zealand's foremost literary figures, founding the literary journal Landfall in 1946.
- The caricature of celebrity-friendly religions, of course, is that they are long on consolation and short on anything else, such as uncongenial moral codes or an actual God whose own celebrity, celeb-watching snarks suggest, might occasionally overshadow the star's own.
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