Meanings of uncongenial work in English

A day of uncongenial work-butat the end of it Lucia!

The uncongenial work I had to do there has chafed me for a long time.

Like many another, he wondered whether the god might be appeased by work-hard uncongenial work.

He knew she wanted money-thatwas her avowed reason for entering into this uncongenial work.

Charlton Howitt, the younger son, after five years' uncongenial work in a London office, emigrated to Australia in 1860.

That seems to me very hard-tobe unselfish and take up uncongenial work, and then to meet with nothing but failure and disappointment!

Other friends, among them Mr. Knollys, assumed as a matter of course that the promotion would bring a change from congenial to uncongenial work.

I wanted something better, but to find it I had to have the means, and means could only be had by the most uncongenial work.

Very well, then, that leaves 3,650,000 people whose day has been unfruitful: spent in uncongenial work, or in sorrow, suffering, and talking nonsense.