ungenially

English[edit]

ungenially (comparative more ungenially, superlative most ungenially)

In an ungenial manner.
- 1851, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Heart‎^[1]:
  The sun glared ungenially at that blot upon the waters, breeding infectious disease; the waves flung the hated burden from one to the other, disdainful of her freight of sin; the winds had no commission for fair sailing, but whistled through the rigging crossways, howling in the ears of many in that ship, as if they carried ghosts along with them […]
- 1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete‎^[2]:
  Very many thousand times above Dudley Sowerby, Nataly ranked Dartrey Fenellan; and still she looked at him, where he sat beside Nesta, ungenially, critical of the very features, jealously in the interests of Dudley; and recollecting, too, that she had once prayed for one exactly resembling Dartrey Fenellan to be her Nesta's husband.