uncongenial
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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I have a trick for doing justice to an uncongenial work: “What would I like about this if I liked it?”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
It’s conceivable that, if she had lived to see the rise of second-wave feminism, she would have found it uncongenial or irrelevant.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2016
Before the first decade of Mr. Friedman’s directorship was out, he had grown dissatisfied with the Walker’s unwieldy 1927 neo-Moorish building, an uncongenial home for the avant-garde.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2016
It not only seeks to censor uncongenial speech but wishes to declare an uncongenial individual ineffable—in effect, to render him an unperson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2016
Those who found the team research Lawrence pioneered uncongenial simply moved on, but they were a distinct minority.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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