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uncongenial

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1. uncongenial - Adjective

2. uncongenial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

very unfavorable to life or growth

not suitable to your tastes or needs

used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted

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In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last. Zbigniew Brzezinski

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects. Jacob Epstein

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others. Marie-Louise von Franz

British influence... is not exercised to impose an uncongenial foreign system upon a reluctant people. It is a force making for the triumph of the simplest ideas of honesty, humanity, and justice, to the value of which Egyptians are just as much alive as anybody else. Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings. Muhammad Iqbal

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