uncongenial
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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
There’s no doubt that many Americans would find Mr. Ilves’s ideas uncongenial, particular his belief that the successful digitization of a society can happen only if digital IDs are mandatory and universal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2017
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
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
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