uncongenial

Example Sentences

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“I don’t care,” and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then.

From Literature

Joe’s blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.

From Literature

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

The intellectual energy of the galleries fizzled out in this strangely uncongenial, vertical space that was reminiscent of a shopping mall.

From Washington Post

But the $250 million Kennedy Center expansion, confined to a small and uncongenial urban footprint, was a significantly more challenging project.

From Washington Post