ungenial

adjective

Definition of ungenialnext
as in inhospitable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungenial
  1. inhospitable
  2. ungracious
  3. unsociable
  4. churlish
Adjective
  • The comments about President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the department inflamed Republican politicians, who often say universities are inhospitable to conservative values and are likely to point to this example as evidence during the next round of state budget deliberations.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In some places, particularly those with abundant natural resources and diseases that made life inhospitable for colonizers, Europeans focused on extracting wealth and exploiting native populations as labor.
    Neil Irwin, Axios, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of inhospitable
Adjective
  • To have remained stone silent was ungracious.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 May 2022
  • But instead of asking, Ed makes a unilateral decision, conveyed by his wife, and we are forced to comply or seem ungracious and risk offending them.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023
Definition of ungracious
Adjective
  • Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
  • To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
Definition of unsociable
Adjective
  • The British series, which debuted in 2022, follows Oscar winner Gary Oldman’s churlish and disheveled Jackson Lamb as the leader of a team of disgraced and disowned MI5 agents scrappily and shabbily getting the job done.
    Trey Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Asked about these comments, and responding to them, Tiger himself was churlish.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 July 2024
Definition of churlish
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