uncongenial
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Uncongenial ideas must be foreshadowed by “trigger warnings,” lest students, who never were free-range children and now are as brittle as pretzels, crumble.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2015
Uncongenial as the expression is to the other languages of antiquity, ἢ γάρ is faithfully retained in the Gothic and in the Harkleian Version280.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
Uncongenial brothers and sisters are often thrown together and bound by the most indissoluble natural ties.
From The Wedding Guest by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Uncongenial as he had at first found the employment which his uncle had provided for him, he pursued it with a patient steadiness, which made it first endurable, then pleasant to him.
From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
Uncongenial as was his work, he went about it with a new sense of the "dignity of labor".
From A Biography of Sidney Lanier by Mims, Edwin
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