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

Take courses from professors who will challenge your views, whatever they are, and attend lectures by visiting scholars whose ideas you find uncongenial, because, after all, you may—as any of us may—be wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2016

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

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