unhospitable

ADJECTIVE

forbidding

Synonyms

WEAK

abhorrent disagreeable dour foreboding frightening glowering grim hostile inhospitable menacing odious off-putting offensive repellent repulsive sinister threatening tough ugly unapproachable unfriendly uninviting unpleasant

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

It is the most unhospitable thing I ever heard of!”

From The Cheerful Smugglers by Preston, May Wilson

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

There it stood, slick and cold, unhospitable as ever a house was.

From Over Prairie Trails by Grove, Frederick Philip

Ay, ay, what you please, Gentlemen, since my Lord's bound—Oh, what Recompence can I make for so unhospitable Usage?

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague