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UK
/ʌnkəndʒˈiːnɪəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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not suitable to your tastes or needs
the uncongenial roommates were always fighting
the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs -
very unfavorable to life or growth
a hostile climate
an uncongenial atmosphere
an uncongenial soil
the unfriendly environment at high altitudes - used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted
How To Use uncongenial In A Sentence
- Robert only learns of Edna's new abode yesterday from his mother and claims to have returned because the Mexicans were uncongenial.
- I am wondering how much research fiction as a category is designed to appeal to the creative writing student for whom the institutional settings and protocols are uncongenial?
- Further, the style of Siloti's artistic life was utterly uncongenial to the post-1914 era and especially the American world.
- The religious climate at the time was uncongenial to new ideas.
- Frankly, we are concerned about your performing the Twist, in an era uncongenial to it, and how it might aggravate your sciatica. Dear Chairman Bernanke
- Indeed, economists have good reason to find the theory of punctuated equilibrium uncongenial.
- Grenville found the post uncongenial and his successes were few.
- A sensitive session that might be uncongenial for resolving delicate domestic dilemmas.
- the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs
- Merely holding an uncongenial opinion one that would be considered radically unrestrictive in most of the developed world makes on a “traitor”, “defector”, and “5th-columnist”. Friendly Fire: Gun Nuts Go Full-Auto on One of Their Own « Lean Left
