uncongenial

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Uncongenial ideas must be foreshadowed by “trigger warnings,” lest students, who never were free-range children and now are as brittle as pretzels, crumble.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2015

Uncongenial society plunged him into such dark depression that he is not ashamed to confess that he found 'bodily relief in weeping.'

From Studies in Literature and History by Miller, John O.

Uncongenial as the two had been, Jason Jones was her father—her only remaining parent—and the suddenness of his death shocked and horrified the girl.

From Mary Louise Solves a Mystery by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

Uncongenial, because Ronald alone followed Sir Owen in the religious half of his nature, and found the 'worldliness' and conventionality of his unflinching mother a serious bar to his enjoyment of home society.

From Philistia by Allen, Grant

Uncongenial as was his work, he went about it with a new sense of the "dignity of labor".

From A Biography of Sidney Lanier by Mims, Edwin