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Uncongenial

adjective
1.
Not suitable to your tastes or needs.  Synonym: incompatible.  "The task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
2.
Very unfavorable to life or growth.  Synonyms: hostile, unfriendly.  "An uncongenial atmosphere" , "An uncongenial soil" , "The unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
3.
Used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted.



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"Uncongenial" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fair Bettina been conducted; and here, with a simple peasant girl to serve her, had she been treated with all respect, save that she was a prisoner. Rude were the inhabitants of this uncongenial spot; fierce in aspect, but completely under the control of the master spirit, whom they called captain. Hark! A peculiar wild cry rings over the tree-tops, and echoes among the rocks and hills; and observe how quickly those who have ...
— The Duke's Prize - A Story of Art and Heart in Florence • Maturin Murray
... home, and compared the distant beauty of the forests and their radiant clouds with the nakedness and desolation here, I gave up looking from the window with a determination to be gone as soon as possible from a country so uncongenial. ...
— Henry Brocken - His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance • Walter J. de la Mare
... it, and began to smoke. "I talked like that because I wanted that idle young scamp, Ned, to devote his fingers to the task. I had not the most remote idea that it would make a young lady commence such an uncongenial pursuit." ...
— The Rajah of Dah • George Manville Fenn
... to me," I answered, "and never more so than in this instance. Forgive me that I cannot show my appreciation of your goodness, or thank you properly for your performance of an uncongenial task. I am sunk deep in trouble. I'm not myself and cannot be till I know what action will be ...
— The House of the Whispering Pines • Anna Katharine Green
... Never have men taken longer chances than did the faithful few who at this time furnished us with information as to events in Insurgent territory. Discovery meant prompt and cruel death. For a long time Major F. S. Bourns had performed the uncongenial task of directing the spies. He was then the chief health officer of Manila, and as all sorts of people were compelled to consult him on sanitary matters, visits to his office aroused no suspicion. He spoke ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester


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