uncongenial
/ʌnkənˈdʒiːnɪəl/
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ʌnkənˈdʒiːnɪəl
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ʌnkən - ˈdʒiːnɪəl -> uncongenial
Myanmar meaning
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uncongenial /ʌnkǝn'dʒi:niǝl / adj
မပျူငှ သော။ မွေ့လျော်ဖွယ် မရှိသော။ uncongenial company ❍ an uncongenial atmosphere.
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- ‘He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial.’
- ‘He had emerged, married an uncongenial and rather vulgar Swiss girl, and obtained a professorship at Cooper's Hill.’
- ‘Well, seeing as I seem to be at my rudest and my uncongenial when around you, I certainly hope not.’
- ‘Despite the uncongenial tone of her voice, however, a slow flush had caught her cheeks unawares.’
- ‘Robert only learns of Edna's new abode yesterday from his mother and claims to have returned because the Mexicans were uncongenial.’
- ‘In a different time, turning to himself, he manages to discover an uncongenial double, another maricone, a banker with whom he shares his name.’
- ‘This is because pilots are now locked into the flight cabin, or whatever they call it, and are unable to avoid each other's company if they find it uncongenial, by socialising with the passengers.’
- ‘Those who leave the delinquent group, as with those who leave any kind of group, do so because they find the group uncongenial; those who remain do so because the group remains intrinsically rewarding to them.’
- ‘The social upheavals and conflicts, the end of tsarist-style deference, and in particular the flow of peasants into the towns had meant that in public people were uncongenial and at home led narrow lives.’
- ‘He found the place and the department uncongenial.’
- ‘Issues of pluralism, of unity and diversity, are not confined to times when the church finds itself in an uncongenial culture, yet they take on a distinctive cast in such times.’
- ‘By contrast with her violent and uncongenial relationship with her first husband, Sir Percival Glyde, Laura appears to share all her second husband's aims, interests, and concerns.’
- ‘Bloggers are not obliged to write about stories that they find uninteresting or uncongenial.’
- ‘The stadium is an unsightly, uncomfortable, and uncongenial place to watch or (so players say) play baseball; it was designed primarily with football in mind.’
- ‘Sooner or later, Kant warns, there will be no empty space left for those of us who have found the already populated places too cramped or too uncongenial for comfort.’
- ‘Further, the style of Siloti's artistic life was utterly uncongenial to the post-1914 era and especially the American world.’
- ‘The situation is not helped by the uncongenial interiors of public toilets and, of course, their widespread closure throughout Scotland.’
- ‘A question that simple has the potential for being haunting; and indeed, it has recurred to me periodically since, whenever I have come up against an uncongenial, even repellant text.’
- ‘I am wondering how much research fiction as a category is designed to appeal to the creative writing student for whom the institutional settings and protocols are uncongenial?’
- ‘Although I find much of Steiner rather absurd, his ‘cultural conservatism’ is not uncongenial.’
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