All 7 Uses of
congenial
in
David Copperfield
- I had no pleasure in thinking, any more, of the grave old broad-leaved aloe-trees, which remained shut up in themselves a hundred years together, and of the trim smooth grass-plot, and the stone urns, and the Doctor's walk, and the congenial sound of the Cathedral bell hovering above them all.†
Chpt 19-21
- Don't resent (as I think you have a general disposition to do) what may be uncongenial to you in him.†
Chpt 25-27
- She found us here; and presented her uncongenial cheek, the little wrinkles in it filled with hair powder, to Dora to be kissed.†
Chpt 25-27
- Sang to her, as congenial melody, "Evening Bells".†
Chpt 37-39 *
- Meaning nothing but a certain matured frivolity and selfishness, not always inseparable from full-blown years, I think she confirmed him in his fear that he was a constraint upon his young wife, and that there was no congeniality of feeling between them, by so strongly commending his design of lightening the load of her life.†
Chpt 43-45
- And I have no doubt she did; or that he loved her, however strange it may appear; though, to be sure, they were a congenial couple.†
Chpt 52-54
- We, being quite prepared for this event, which was of course a proceeding of Uriah Heep's, soon paid the money; and in five minutes more Mr. Micawber was seated at the table, filling up the stamps with an expression of perfect joy, which only that congenial employment, or the making of punch, could impart in full completeness to his shining face.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(congenial) agreeable or compatible in a positive way -- often in the context of being friendly and sociable