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

She rejected major theaters that wanted to build her up in uncongenial minor roles, preferring to sing the characters she loved in smaller houses.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2017

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

It not only seeks to censor uncongenial speech but wishes to declare an uncongenial individual ineffable—in effect, to render him an unperson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2016

Staphylococci live all over us, and seem to have adapted to conditions in our skin that are uncongenial to most other bacteria.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas