uncompanionable
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But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
From White Fang by London, Jack
He did not like, nor did he understand, the ways of the French boys; he was alone; he was homesick; and naturally he became sulky and uncompanionable.
From The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French by Foa, Eugenie
What an uncompanionable disagreeable person he must have been!
From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel
But since that ill-starr'd day at Regensburg, Which plunged him headlong from his dignity, A gloomy uncompanionable spirit, Unsteady and suspicious, has possess'd him.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
Yet who that had ever been condemned to the dreadful embarrassments of a t�te-�-t�te with an uncompanionable person, could reflect without apprehension on a lifetime of such t�te-�-t�tes?
From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
