The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inhospitable \In*hos"pi*ta*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + hospitable: cf. L. inhospitalis.]
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Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door?
--Cowper. Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. ``Inhospitable wastes.''
--Blair. -- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In an inhospitable manner.
WordNet
adv. in an inhospitable manner; "she was received inhospitably by her new family" [ant: hospitably]
Usage examples of "inhospitably".
A stark chair of dark wood waited inhospitably beside the chest, and that completed the room's furnishings save for the bed itself, which seemed to be fashioned almost entirely of heavy metal.
For thus inhospitably did this fair earth, our common inheritance, present itself to the mental vision of Mr Verloc.
The doors were inhospitably closed and locked, but Simon found a bell to ring, and after a while a beady eye peered out through a two-inch opening and was sufficiently satisfied to let him in.