Adjective : congenial surroundings. ,a congenial couple.    From Dictionary.com. 

Monsieur afterwards: 'it is a character of great energy and enthusiasm, frozen by the hardness and uncongeniality of her fate.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

Notwithstanding the uncongeniality of his surroundings, he had found opportunities for study, and never had his treasured volumes seemed more precious to him than during those long winter months, when despair haunted him like a shadow from which there seemed no means of escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

Originality ever links with it something of uncongeniality -- a feeling somewhat akin to the egotism of that one who, when asked why he talked so much to himself, replied -- for two reasons: the one, that he liked to talk to a sensible man; the other, that he liked to hear a sensible man talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

The uncongeniality of his domestic life embittered his character and his genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference

If it should be lost or broken, much sadness will come into her life through death and uncongeniality.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams] Reference

My own objections arise from a sense of incongruity and uncongeniality in feelings, tastes, principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference

Her strength sprang from the very uncongeniality of her home and her successful struggles against the poverty and vice which surrounded her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Wollstonecraft] Reference

What with social exclusiveness, political and religious controversy, and uncongeniality of tastes, the Miltons 'country circle of acquaintance was probably narrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of John Milton] Reference

Before I ever spoke to her of love, she had confided to me her own unhappiness -- the uncongeniality of her married life, the harshness, and even brutality, of her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference

Life, life in that great and hard school of practical living, New York, had given her the necessary hardiness to go, aided by Rod's unfaithfulness and growing uncongeniality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference

This repugnance arose not from the disparity between their years; it was rather that nameless uncongeniality which does not forbid friendship, but is irreconcilable with love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia — Complete] Reference

When the vicious excess had decisively rooted itself in his character, he came to Paris, where it was irritated into further activity by the uncongeniality of all that surrounded him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference

Oliver levelled his keen eyes on him, as though noting down observations, while he was burning for tidings of Mary, yet held back by reserve and sense of the uncongeniality of the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference

Solitude is infinitely preferable to uncongeniality, and is bliss when compared with repulsiveness, so I was thoroughly glad when I got rid of my escort and set out upon the prairie alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

On one occasion a friend was pouring into her ears an account of the utter uncongeniality between herself and husband, largely because he was wholly unappreciative of her higher thoughts and feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years] Reference

As my life creeps on for ever through the long toil-laden days with its agonizing monotony, narrowness, and absolute uncongeniality, how my spirit frets and champs its unbreakable fetters -- all in vain!.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Brilliant Career] Reference

It was not a question of honor or conscience, of mental uncongeniality, temperamental differences, or even the part in his back hair; it was, as she realized, a case of physical repulsion pure and simple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man from the Bitter Roots] Reference

In addition to the natural uncongeniality of the climate, the ground on which it grows in Louisiana, being lower than the surface of the river, is much of the time made cold by the infiltration of moisture.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference

But it was on this very uncongeniality of disposition that the regent based her plans; if she could fortunately succeed in separating them she would at the same time divide the whole Flemish nobility into two parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02] Reference

It matters not if she is poor, if she has to toil for her daily bread, or even if she is surrounded by coarseness and uncongeniality: nothing can deprive her of her natural instinct to help, of her birthright as a helper.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference

She knew the sorrows of suspense, bereavement, and family disunion; and he, before his twenty-fourth year, had made experience of adversity, uncongeniality, disappointment, and severe -- almost hopeless -- everyday labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

On the open prairies between Ontario and the Rocky Mountains, not much success has attended the attempts to grow any kind of clover, owing probably to present uncongeniality in soils and more especially in climatic conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference

She harkened in vain for some hopeful note of uncongeniality, some reassurance for her love or at least her vanity, some certainty that her husband, her first possessor, had given her some emotion that he could never give another.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

And Miss Burney's wretchedness, which calls forth our sympathy, was not because she had to perform the duties of waiting-maid, but because to a gifted and educated woman these duties were uncongenial; and congeniality means happiness; uncongeniality, unhappiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A girl's life in Virginia before the war,] Reference

Neither need we despair of one day meeting with the signs of Man's existence in the forest bed Number 3, or in the overlying strata 3 prime, on the ground of any uncongeniality in the climate or incongruity in the state of the animate creation with the well-being of our species.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquity of Man] Reference

If through the cross rifts of his daily routine there filtered occasional shadows of loneliness, he only vaguely acknowledged their existence, attributing his groping longing for sympathy to the lack of male companionship and the uncongeniality that existed between himself and his sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wall Between] Reference

He understood the coldness, the uncongeniality now -- the simulated increase of her aversion to Demorest -- her journeys to Boston and Hartford to see her relatives, her acquiescence to his frequent absences; not an incident, not a characteristic of her married life was inconsistent with her guilt and her deceit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts of North Liberty] Reference

There visibly increased, too, about the whole household, an atmosphere of uncongeniality and suspicion so pronounced that every successive illness was necessarily more severe, and at last the patient felt obliged to remain bedded until almost eleven, from time to time giving forth pathetic little sounds eloquent of anguish triumphing over Stoic endurance, yet lacking a certain conviction of utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod and Sam] Reference

"I wish I could bring home to you," said Charles, "the number of intimations, as it were, which have been given me of my uncongeniality, as it may be called, with things as they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference