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uninviting

[uhn-in-vahy-ting] / ˌʌn ɪnˈvaɪ tɪŋ /


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Loyal customers have complained about long wait times and an increasingly uninviting atmosphere in stores.

From Slate Dec. 22, 2025

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2025

Ahedo’s cone-shaped adobe rooms appeared to have fared fairly well, but Otis blew out windows and the solar panels that had powered his business and turned his pool an uninviting green.

From Seattle Times Oct. 27, 2023

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

‘And very cheerless and uninviting it looks! There is no water and no shelter. And no sign of Gandalf. But I don’t blame him for not waiting — if he ever came here.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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