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Definition of ungenial in English: ungenialadjectiveʌnˈdʒiːnɪəl 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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