Dictionary entry
Uncongenial
Pronunciation: /ʌnkənˈdʒiːnɪəl/
Pronunciation
/ʌnkənˈdʒiːnɪəl/
Myanmar Meaning
နှစ်မြို့ဖွယ်မကောင်းခြင်း။
Definition
uncongenial /ʌnkǝn'dʒi:niǝl / adj မပ်ဴငွ ေသာ။ ေမြ႕ေလ်ာ္ဖြယ္ မရိွေသာ။ uncongenial company ❍ an uncongenial atmosphere.
Examples
- ‘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.’