uncongenial

Example Sentences

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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.

From Washington Post

But the $250 million Kennedy Center expansion, confined to a small and uncongenial urban footprint, was a significantly more challenging project.

From Washington Post

Matthew is bemused but willing; among the many virtues of cruising as a narrative device is that it can dispose a character to play along in uncongenial situations.

From The New Yorker

Brandom, whose life’s work relies on the distinction between force and content that Kimhi attacks, admits to finding his former student’s ideas “deeply uncongenial” and “threatening.”

From New York Times

And about denial of another First Amendment guarantee, freedom of association, which includes the freedom not to associate, through coerced financial support, with uncongenial political organizations.

From Washington Post