All 7 Uses of
congenial
in
Bleak House
- The iron country farther north is, I suppose, the congenial direction for a boy with these tendencies.†
Chpt 7-9
- At a short distance, we passed the young man and the dog, in congenial company.†
Chpt 7-9
- I then asked Richard whether he had thought of any more congenial pursuit.†
Chpt 16-18
- Mr. Guppy saunters along with it congenially.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Sir Leicester is particularly complacent because he has found in his newspaper some congenial remarks bearing directly on the floodgates and the framework of society.†
Chpt 28-30
- It looks as if Symond were a sparing man in his way and constructed his inn of old building materials which took kindly to the dry rot and to dirt and all things decaying and dismal, and perpetuated Symond's memory with congenial shabbiness.†
Chpt 37-39
- But my mind dwelt so much upon the uncongenial scene in which I had left her, and I pictured it as such an overshadowed stony-hearted one, and I so longed to be near her and taking some sort of care of her, that I determined to go back in the evening only to look up at her windows.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(congenial) agreeable or compatible in a positive way -- often in the context of being friendly and sociable