uninviting
Example Sentences
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Loyal customers have complained about long wait times and an increasingly uninviting atmosphere in stores.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2025
The island, given an appropriately sickly, uninviting sheen by cinematographer Mathias Herndl, clearly wasn’t big enough for all of these new-world experimenters.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025
Animals “are broadening their foraging range and going into more traditionally uninviting and unnatural areas to try to get food and keep alive,” he says.
From Scientific American • Jun. 13, 2023
Scholes acknowledged the uninviting concrete, and the DSA points to the challenges of the built environment in its report.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022
To the left, it wound into a valley of misty beech trees; to the right, it disappeared up a dank gully, its steep sides an uninviting jumble of moss-covered boulders.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
