uncongenial

/ ˌʌnkənˈdʒiːnjəl; -nɪəl /

adjective

1. not friendly, pleasant, or agreeable

Example Sentences

Abrams had the wind at her back in 2018, with an uncongenial president from the other party.

From Washington Post

“I don’t care,” and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then.

From Literature

Joe’s blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.

From Literature

It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.

From Literature

Richards, who had been an executive producer on “Jeopardy!” since 2020, lost the job he had just stepped into after offensive things he’d said on his 2013-14 “Randumb” podcast and elsewhere, along with tales of an uncongenial workplace on “The Price Is Right,” where he’d previously been an executive producer, were floated into public view.

From Los Angeles Times