unloving

Example Sentences

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To connect maternal regret with unloving and neglectful parenting is a careless assumption, according to Israeli sociologist Orna Donath, author of Regretting Motherhood: A Study.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

That isolation only makes us cold, cruel, unfriendly, unloving and incurious when we venture into the world and cross paths with all of the incredible people who inhabit it.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025

“Inside the play it felt possible that I was not a person defined by his adultery, or his unloving parents, or his lies, his failure as a father.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2021

Living alongside each other in a spacious apartment, she and her husband, Tomoya, use the semblance of marriage to avoid the clutches of their unloving families and repressive society.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020

He is dressed in white shorts and a white shirt, an outfit which makes him look like a boy...a good boy...the only son of monied, unloving tycoons.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez