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

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

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

Before the first decade of Mr. Friedman’s directorship was out, he had grown dissatisfied with the Walker’s unwieldy 1927 neo-Moorish building, an uncongenial home for the avant-garde.

From New York Times • May 13, 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