unhospitable

Example Sentences

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The atmosphere was so unhospitable I stepped outside where they could watch me and I drank the orange.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

O fly from this unhospitable shore, Warn'd by my fate; for I am Polydore!

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

This went on for several years, in the course of which many hundreds of these houses were erected on unhospitable spots unfit for a human residence.’

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

She just looked up quiet and spoke—sort of unhospitable.

From Believe You Me! by Putnam, Nina Wilcox

Don Quixote also made yet more noise, calling them false and treacherous villains, and the lord of the castle base and unhospitable, and a discourteous knight, for suffering a knight-errant to be so abused.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de