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UK
/ʌnkəndʒˈiːnɪəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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not suitable to your tastes or needs
the uncongenial roommates were always fighting
the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs -
very unfavorable to life or growth
a hostile climate
an uncongenial atmosphere
an uncongenial soil
the unfriendly environment at high altitudes - used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted
How To Use uncongenial In A Sentence
- an uncongenial atmosphere
- He found his first job - as a bank clerk - uncongenial, and the armed services always beckoned.
- My lifelong entanglement with pay phones dates me; when I was young they were just there, a given, often as stubborn and uncongenial as the curbstone underfoot.
- an uncongenial soil
- She liked Hogg and loved Leigh Hunt, but Peacock was uncongenial to her. Biography in the DNB
- He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial.
- He had emerged, married an uncongenial and rather vulgar Swiss girl, and obtained a professorship at Cooper's Hill.
- The social upheavals and conflicts, the end of tsarist-style deference, and in particular the flow of peasants into the towns had meant that in public people were uncongenial and at home led narrow lives.
- This mechanical and repetitive work was certainly uncongenial, but so in a different way was the company that Dickens was obliged to keep.
- Parliamentary secretaries (unless they are called Adonis) exist to sign letters, reply to debates at uncongenial hours, and read briefs approved by their elders if not betters.
