Definition of "uncongenial" []

• Not compatible or sympathetic, as in character. (adjective)
• Not appropriate; unsuitable. (adjective)
• Not pleasing; disagreeable. (adjective)

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• "He believed that I had marked artistic talent and that I should not be forced to waste it in uncongenial work."
• "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."
• "The caricature of celebrity-friendly religions, of course, is that they are long on consolation and short on anything else, such as uncongenial moral codes or an actual God whose own celebrity, celeb-watching snarks suggest, might occasionally overshadow the star's own."