ungenial

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Ungenial influences, unwelcome assiduity of attention, were sapping her vitality, and the analogy between her lot and that of her fading favorite was wearing upon her imagination.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

Ungenial as the air might be, there was in it just a touch, a faint suggestion of spring, and a whisper of spring ran through the bare forest.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

Silent meanwhile Far down the board a son of Norway sat, Ungenial guest with clouded brows and stern, And eyes that flashed beneath them: bard was he, Warrior and bard.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Ungenial, un-jē′ni-al, adj. not genial or kindly: not congenial: not favourable to natural growth.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various