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

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

People too firmly rooted to the center of their lives find such questions uncongenial at best, quite distasteful at worst.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos