uncongenial

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

Thanks to your fair comprehensive coverage I now know he had a black roommate and a transgender acquaintance, though he was likely uncongenial to sexual minorities.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2018

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

Which makes it all the more remarkable that the university he founded—now presided over by his son, Jerry Falwell Jr.—today is notable for its openness to uncongenial viewpoints.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 15, 2015

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.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens