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

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

I thought this very unhospitable; being totally different from any thing I had ever before witnessed in this country, where hospitality generally exceeds all bounds.

From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey

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

From Believe You Me! by Putnam, Nina Wilcox

The walls were unplastered and the rafters unceiled; the whole bearing a most barnlike and unhospitable appearance.

From The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice