Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not genial.
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- adjective Not
genial .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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But she declined the excursion, as not more unseasonable in its expence, than ungenial to her feelings.
Camilla 2008
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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He broke in upon me when least a creature so ungenial was present to my thoughts.
Camilla 2008
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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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