unaccommodating
Example Sentences
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The accompanying material may occasionally press too hard in trying to domesticate what is, in the end, undomesticable, but the books themselves continue to exert their peculiar, unaccommodating force.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Since beginning in Norway in June, the crew of the Abel Tasman have already sailed around Iceland and Greenland, before entering the unaccommodating waters that run between northernmost Canada and the Arctic.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
You deserve more than a coercive, unaccommodating partner.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2021
Only after weathering months of failed group therapy and ineffective medications, damaging misdiagnoses and an unaccommodating insurer, did she at last begin to find a sense of calm.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017
The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders,—nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp like a stubborn fact, as it was,—all helped the emphasis.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
