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

I boasted that we had the honour of being the first to abolish the unhospitable, troublesome, and ungracious custom of giving vails to servants.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor

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

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

Blair-Adam, as I have always heard, had a wild, uncomely, and unhospitable appearance, before its improvements were begun.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)