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单词 ungenial
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Definition of ungenial in English:

ungenial

adjectiveʌnˈdʒiːnɪəl
  • Not genial.

    he was of somewhat ungenial temperament
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the ungenial man was an excellent conductor who was generous enough every second or third week to invite the big maestros of the world.
    • The house was in a most, as Mother had deemed it, ungenial location, abutting the tracks.
    • Bacon had sown the good seed in a sluggish soil and an ungenial season.
    • The weather continued rainy and ungenial for some days after his return.
    • I hope she is now in stronger health, but the weather lately has not been favorable, so cold and ungenial.
    • In an ungenial moment, Socrates, too, scorned them for taking fees, calling them ‘prostitutes of wisdom.’
    • Byron's poem sprung forth as a result, and the ‘wet, ungenial summer’, as Mary Shelley described it in her diary, drove the wordsmiths indoors.
    • But it proved a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.
    • For even in those most ungenial days he aspired to literary fame, and as the by-product of laborious years issued, at his own expense, the ‘Poems of a Journeyman Mason’.
 
 
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