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

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

Which makes it all the more remarkable that the university he founded—now presided over by his son, Jerry Falwell Jr.—today is notable for its openness to uncongenial viewpoints.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 15, 2015

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