What is "ungenial"

Usage examples of "ungenial".

Mr Wharton got up from his chair, hesitated a moment, and then gave his hand to the intruder in that half-unwilling, unsatisfactory manner which most of us have experienced when shaking hands with some cold-blooded, ungenial acquaintance.

This perverse poem was the last as well as the first manifestation of an ungenial mood of Mr.

Why had he wantoned on his glittering plumage amidst these harsh and ungenial strangers, dazzling the eyes with his gorgeous hues, charming the ear with his blithesome song--thus suddenly to be arrested--caged in darkness--a victim and a prey--his gay flights for ever over--his hymns of gladness for ever stilled!

I touched one of these platters one day to feel the grain of the wood, and it was cold earthenware--cold, ungenial, repellent crockery, a mockery, sham!

Both had sacrificed inclination to what they considered to be duty, and if the ungenial life of the governess was owing to the tranquil course of her ordinary feelings, it is probable that its impunity was to be ascribed to the same respectable cause.

My guardian, with his sweet temper and his quick perception and his amiable face, made something agreeable even out of the ungenial company.

They are thoroughly ungenial, and have that air of suspicion in speaking of every one which is not unusual in the land of their ancestors.

She had risen to a sphere above, beyond the ordinary soarings of mortals--a world without a cloud, without one ungenial breath.

But take a high-born woman and place her in immediate contact with the rough material of the world, and see how like a sensitive plant she will shrink, close herself up and droop, and feel as if she had fallen from her native sphere into a spot unknown, ungenial, and full of storms.

Both were tall and strongly built, and had the same rugged cast of features: men of few words and ungenial manners.

New England school-system, the Puritan code, the ungenial climate, the absence of chivalry.

Its streets were blocked up with snow--the few passengers seemed palsied, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter.

Why had he wantoned on his glittering plumage amidst these harsh and ungenial strangers, dazzling the eyes with his gorgeous hues, charming the ear with his blithesome song--thus suddenly to be arrested--caged in darkness--a victim and a prey--his gay flights for ever over--his hymns of gladness for ever stilled!

Here I saw for the first time, in any number to speak of, the Mission-boys, the converted Natives, half sacerdotally attired, whatever office they might be filling, fat young Kikuyus with spectacles and folded hands, who looked like ungenial Eunuchs.