uncongenial

/ ˌʌnkənˈdʒiːnjəl, -nɪəl /

adjective

1. not friendly, pleasant, or agreeable

Example Sentences

“I don’t care,” and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then.

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Joe’s blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.

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Yet let's consider this admittedly uncongenial possibility: perhaps Trump is onto something.

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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?”

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The intellectual energy of the galleries fizzled out in this strangely uncongenial, vertical space that was reminiscent of a shopping mall.

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