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Recent Examples of uncongenial Bauer attributes the poverty of the third world to cultural values inimical to productivity: In much of the Third World the political, social, and personal determinants of economic performance are often uncongenial to economic development. Wanjiru Njoya, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2024 The experiment was a flop, the living arrangements spare, the neighbors uncongenial, and the couple was in debt. Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022 Someone listening to an uncongenial podcast can turn it off and listen to something else or nothing at all, in total safety. Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022 People who have broken down barriers thrown up by law, social convention and institutional intolerance tend to make uncongenial company. Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021 The Guston affair is a symptom of a society-wide deterioration of trust in institutions and tolerance for uncongenial expression. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020 The intellectual energy of the galleries fizzled out in this strangely uncongenial, vertical space that was reminiscent of a shopping mall. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019 But the $250 million Kennedy Center expansion, confined to a small and uncongenial urban footprint, was a significantly more challenging project. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019 North Korea is a problem uncongenial to such messiness—the administration is leaving an awful lot of room for misunderstanding on a problem that admits little room for such mistakes. Kori Schake, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncongenial
Adjective
  • With the present geopolitical situation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, landmines are making a very unpleasant comeback.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In our testing, the formula feels like a gel-serum—and doesn't get heavy, gloopy, or otherwise unpleasant.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Smears on non-sensor areas of the tiara are like bug debris on your hood, aesthetically unpleasing but not harmful.
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2019
  • His side's inability to finish off the game against Burnley on the other hand was very unpleasing.
    SI.com, SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018
Adjective
  • Hope reigns even in this harsh political climate we Americans are now experiencing.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
  • With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer (Brandon Sklenar) embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That means more time for Rojas, who has shown more bad than good to begin this season.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Black Mirror’s most effective episodes use their high-concept premises to explore people’s hunger for connection and validation, and how our increasingly tech-forward, capitalistic world can stretch those human impulses to the limit for better or (almost always) worse.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 17 Apr. 2025

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“Uncongenial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncongenial. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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