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

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

He dismisses arguments he finds uncongenial with phrases like “Are you kidding me?” and “Come on,” and he’s quick to impugn the motives of critics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2015

Slant and Pomp are often my companions; each of us finds the company of the others not uncongenial.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson