uncongeniality
IPA: ʌnkʌndʒiniˈæɫʌti
noun
- (uncountable) The quality of being uncongenial.
- (countable) Something uncongenial.
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Examples of "uncongeniality" in Sentences
- Ursula laughed and I was pleased that the young are so quick to read uncongeniality as irony.
- Monsieur afterwards: 'it is a character of great energy and enthusiasm, frozen by the hardness and uncongeniality of her fate.'
- Solitude is infinitely preferable to uncongeniality, and is bliss when compared with repulsiveness, so I was thoroughly glad when I got rid of my escort and set out upon the prairie alone.
- As my life creeps on for ever through the long toil-laden days with its agonizing monotony, narrowness, and absolute uncongeniality, how my spirit frets and champs its unbreakable fetters -- all in vain!
- It was not a question of honor or conscience, of mental uncongeniality, temperamental differences, or even the part in his back hair; it was, as she realized, a case of physical repulsion pure and simple.
- Many a witty, talented person has had a stupid bore pursue him upon such an introduction, and even the one necessary conversation following an introduction is a painful effort, owing to the entire uncongeniality of the parties introduced.
- Notwithstanding the uncongeniality of his surroundings, he had found opportunities for study, and never had his treasured volumes seemed more precious to him than during those long winter months, when despair haunted him like a shadow from which there seemed no means of escape.
- If through the cross rifts of his daily routine there filtered occasional shadows of loneliness, he only vaguely acknowledged their existence, attributing his groping longing for sympathy to the lack of male companionship and the uncongeniality that existed between himself and his sisters.
- Originality ever links with it something of uncongeniality -- a feeling somewhat akin to the egotism of that one who, when asked why he talked so much to himself, replied -- for two reasons: the one, that he liked to talk to a sensible man; the other, that he liked to hear a sensible man talk.
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