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

  1. ‘He was seen as an effective leader
  2. despite being taciturn and uncongenial.’
  3. ‘He had emerged
  4. married an uncongenial and rather vulgar Swiss girl
  5. and obtained a professorship at Cooper's Hill.’
  6. ‘Well
  7. seeing as I seem to be at my rudest and my uncongenial when around you
  8. I certainly hope not.’
  9. ‘Despite the uncongenial tone of her voice
  10. however
  11. a slow flush had caught her cheeks unawares.’
  12. ‘Robert only learns of Edna's new abode yesterday from his mother and claims to have returned because the Mexicans were uncongenial.’
  13. ‘In a different time
  14. turning to himself
  15. he manages to discover an uncongenial double
  16. another maricone
  17. a banker with whom he shares his name.’
  18. ‘This is because pilots are now locked into the flight cabin
  19. or whatever they call it
  20. and are unable to avoid each other's company if they find it uncongenial
  21. by socialising with the passengers.’
  22. ‘Those who leave the delinquent group
  23. as with those who leave any kind of group
  24. do so because they find the group uncongenial; those who remain do so because the group remains intrinsically rewarding to them.’
  25. ‘The social upheavals and conflicts
  26. the end of tsarist-style deference
  27. and in particular the flow of peasants into the towns had meant that in public people were uncongenial and at home led narrow lives.’
  28. ‘He found the place and the department uncongenial.’
  29. ‘Issues of pluralism
  30. of unity and diversity
  31. are not confined to times when the church finds itself in an uncongenial culture
  32. yet they take on a distinctive cast in such times.’
  33. ‘By contrast with her violent and uncongenial relationship with her first husband
  34. Sir Percival Glyde
  35. Laura appears to share all her second husband's aims
  36. interests
  37. and concerns.’
  38. ‘Bloggers are not obliged to write about stories that they find uninteresting or uncongenial.’
  39. ‘The stadium is an unsightly
  40. uncomfortable
  41. and uncongenial place to watch or (so players say) play baseball; it was designed primarily with football in mind.’
  42. ‘Sooner or later
  43. Kant warns
  44. 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.’
  45. ‘Further
  46. the style of Siloti's artistic life was utterly uncongenial to the post-1914 era and especially the American world.’
  47. ‘The situation is not helped by the uncongenial interiors of public toilets and
  48. of course
  49. their widespread closure throughout Scotland.’
  50. ‘A question that simple has the potential for being haunting; and indeed
  51. it has recurred to me periodically since
  52. whenever I have come up against an uncongenial
  53. even repellant text.’
  54. ‘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?’
  55. ‘Although I find much of Steiner rather absurd
  56. his ‘cultural conservatism’ is not uncongenial.’