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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    I remember especially the walks we all took together every day in Central Park, the only part of the city that was congenial to me.  (source)
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