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Unhospitable

Unhospitable \Un*hos"pi*ta*ble\, a. Inhospitable.

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unhospitable

a. Not hospitable.

Usage examples of "unhospitable".

In nearly all instances these were ships engaged in charting air currents and recording atmospheric pressures in different parts of Barsoom far from the empire, and recently it has become apparent that the vast majority of these ships which never return were those cruising in the southern part of the western hemisphere, an unhospitable portion of our planet concerning which we have unfortunately but little knowledge owing to the fact that we have developed no trade with the unfriendly people inhabiting this vast domain.

The rather different reality of scraping out a living on an unhospitable rock of ice with a population consisting mainly of outlaws, failures and criminals upsets a lot of new arrivals, and some never really get over it.

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

Billy Buffaloshoe looked remarkably hale and hearty sitting propped up against the pillows, staring at the green placid walls of his unhospitable cell.

Bwana was wondering how a lone white man could have made his way through the savage, unhospitable miles that lay toward the south.

It was unhospitable to the sucking things which crawled the trees and munched leaves on the other side of the lake.