unloving

Example Sentences

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Raised by two self-focused and unloving parents, scarred by their divorce and her father’s abandonment, Hepburn vowed that she would never allow any children of hers to feel as unwanted as she did.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

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

Even her sometime publisher called her “a mean, cruel, hard, unlovable, unloving human being.”

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

I thought that because of her sharp tongue and unloving ways, she would not find a welcome in her brother’s home.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan