unhospitable
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
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It is the most unhospitable thing I ever heard of!”
From The Cheerful Smugglers by Preston, May Wilson
The walls were unplastered and the rafters unceiled; the whole bearing a most barnlike and unhospitable appearance.
From The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
I suppose the poor devils never reached land, and if they did, they most probably perished on that cold and unhospitable shore; but I couldn't permit them aboard the U-33.
From The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Captain J. Wood also sailed to the unhospitable shores of Novaya Zemlya, and so terrified people by his descriptions that they gave up the attempt in despair.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles