Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not genial.

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  • adjective Not genial.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ genial

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Examples

  • But the ungenial climate and sharp sea-breeze already struck a chill through her whole frame, which even the cloak and plaid in which she was enveloped could not prevent her from feeling; and she began to fancy she was going to be banished to a ruder spot than even the deserts of Siberia.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • The man brought back information that General Browne had been walking abroad since an early hour of the morning, in defiance of the weather, which was misty and ungenial.

    The Tapestried Chamber 2008

  • But she declined the excursion, as not more unseasonable in its expence, than ungenial to her feelings.

    Camilla 2008

  • The lower parts of this seemingly desert waste, of a marshy mossy consistence, were of too ungenial a soil to repay the husbandman for his industry.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • That you may not be altogether without female society, Amelia will endeavour to come down to dinner; but she is so seriously indisposed, my dear Miss Trevanion, I am quite alarmed about her; and begin to wish I had never brought her to this ungenial climate.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • If you were persuaded our dispositions would not assimilate; if mine appeared to you too rigorous, too ungenial, your timely precaution has spared more misery than it has inflicted.

    Camilla 2008

  • She had yet said nothing to Camilla upon the subject; not only because a dearer interest mutually occupied them, but from a secret shame of naming a lover at a period so ungenial.

    Camilla 2008

  • The man brought back information that General Browne had been walking abroad since an early hour of the morning, in defiance of the weather, which was misty and ungenial.

    The Tapestried Chamber 2008

  • He broke in upon me when least a creature so ungenial was present to my thoughts.

    Camilla 2008

  • James was at first stiff and ungenial, but he warmed up as we passed the gin and he began to play.

    It’s a White Thing 2008

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