Sample Sentences for
congenial
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    She found her new colleagues to be quite congenial, making her transition to the new job much easier.
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    The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.  (source)
    congenial = agreeable and compatible
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    Calvin seemed to be the most congenial of them, and followed the introductions with a command to King Walker to "get this city boy some shoes for his feet."  (source)
    congenial = agreeable (friendly)
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    Some people said there must be more education, but a boy with education did not want to work on the farms, and went off to the towns to look for more congenial occupation.  (source)
    congenial = agreeable or compatible
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    "I don't care," and Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncongenial means not and reverses the meaning of congenial. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    They remained frozen in attitudes of congeniality, smiling at each other across the plates of now-rotting food, and flies.  (source)
    congeniality = agreeableness (friendliness)
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    They both watched me attentively, congenially.†  (source)
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    For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils.†  (source)
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    Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.  (source)
    congenial = agreeable or compatible
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    Perry's cell adjoined Dick's; though invisible to each other, they could easily converse, yet Perry seldom spoke to Dick, and it wasn't because of any declared animosity between them (after the exchange of a few tepid reproaches, their relationship had turned into one of mutual toleration: the acceptance of uncongenial but helpless Siamese twins); it was because Perry, cautious as always, secretive, suspicious, disliked having the guards and other inmates overhear his "private business"—especially Andrews, or Andy, as he was called on the Row.†  (source)
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    They take turns leaning forward to point out their moves with shrewd congeniality, playing it like a chess match, the kind of game that allows civilized men to play at make-believe murder.†  (source)
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    Not all defects could be explained so congenially.†  (source)
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    The higher intellect, the imagination, the spirit, and even the heart might all find their congenial aliment in pursuits which ... would ascend from one step of powerful intelligence to another, until the philosopher should lay his hand on the secret of creative force and perhaps make new worlds for himself.  (source)
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