The uncongenial roommates were always fighting. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He believed that I had marked artistic talent and that I should not be forced to waste it in uncongenial work. From Wordnik.com. [Madeleine: An Autobiography] Reference
After a short and "uncongenial" employment with Hallensteins, Charles became one of New Zealand's foremost literary figures, founding the literary journal Landfall in 1946. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
"uncongenial," the "friendly parting before any bitterness creeps in," and the "free to decide our lives in some happier and wiser way," rang false. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
"Aunt Olive has told me they were very uncongenial.". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
And I find very few environments wholly uncongenial. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
The atmosphere of a library is uncongenial with them. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
South Carolina very uncongenial, and stood by the union. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
This was my uncongenial initiation into my friend's home. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
No good work can be accomplished in uncongenial employment. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
The people were uncongenial, and I think it likely they regarded. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Then, "he added," we are so uncongenial -- at least this morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
How could I live under one roof with uncongenial souls like Bayard de. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
But then Eugenia had seemed to find France as strange and uncongenial as. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
This life he soon found uncongenial, and decided on becoming a mining engineer. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
I'm sure it was the first Christmas any of us had spent in such an uncongenial way. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Without being cemented by this element the conjugal union is sure to be uncongenial. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Many an uncongenial task was forced upon me, but I can honestly say I never shirked it. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Return to two months more of the uncongenial drudgery from which he had been so glad to escape?. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
"Too much time and experience thinking in a certain way can prove uncongenial to any innovation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle Of Genius] Reference
But Mr. Abbott has disposed of the uncongenial theme with his accustomed ingenuity and good sense. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The new principal was uncongenial, a severe young man from the South whose father was a slaveholder. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Because a man seems uncongenial to you, who are squeamish and foolish, you have no right to shun him. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The illustrious poets also, annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Still, he goes "where glory waits him," so what recks he that the hour is altogether uncongenial and inconvenient?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
When the valiant scribe had wrestled with his uncongenial task for half an hour or more, his sister came upon the scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
The latter had been so uncongenial in accent and tone that she had hesitated about becoming my instructor on that account. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
A tranquil life -- that was the dream of the poor woman, who was continually tormented by the whims of an uncongenial companion. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Châtillon -- an uncongenial group, in which the violent persecutor and the future partisan of the Reformation walked side by side. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
We skip uncongenial or tiresome sections of long novels -- the moralizing rants in Dickens, say, or the poetry in "The Lord of the Rings.". From Wordnik.com. [Poetry Slam] Reference
He found the conventional atmosphere of Cambridge uncongenial, and with a friend he established the Round Hill school at Northampton, Mass. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Tuneful strains were believed by the physicians of old to be uncongenial to the spirits of sickness; but among medicine-men of many American. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Yet, however unsuited such a Parliament would be for the present time, however uncongenial it might have been to the feelings of a Cobbett or. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
He had the pleasant consciousness of an uncongenial task conscientiously performed, and without its anticipated unwelcome results being left behind. From Wordnik.com. [A Bachelor's Dream] Reference
But to comprehend the miracle of the latest renaissance, you have to understand how uncongenial Ireland could be for writers as recently as 30 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Coming] Reference
"Your sister looks tired," a late acquisition of Eulalie's made observation, compassionately, one evening, seeing Elvira nod over her uncongenial Battenberg-ing by the piano lamp. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
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