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Unfriendly   /ənfrˈɛndli/   Listen
Unfriendly

adjective
1.
Not easy to understand or use.
2.
Not disposed to friendship or friendliness.  "An unfriendly action to take"
3.
Not friendly.  Synonym: inimical.  "An inimical critic"
4.
Very unfavorable to life or growth.  Synonyms: hostile, uncongenial.  "An uncongenial atmosphere" , "An uncongenial soil" , "The unfriendly environment at high altitudes"





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"Unfriendly" Quotes from Famous Books



... the stout lady flushed with rage and disappointment, and ejaculated: "Abominable!" The eyes of all were now directed to Herbert, who was the only one remaining. Could it be possible that the balance of the property was left to him? The fear of this made him the focus of unfriendly eyes, and he ...
— Herbert Carter's Legacy • Horatio Alger
... obvious reluctance to tell me even necessary things, I was resolved to make her speak out. She hesitated, but finally yielded, when I pointed out that we must decide whether it came from a friendly or an unfriendly hand. ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett
... of those arts that distinguished the diplomacy of two centuries ago. Falsehood and bribery are supposed to have been the great levers used to effect the change, together with threats of extinction at the hands of a savage and unfriendly nation. ...
— Cetywayo and his White Neighbours - Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal • H. Rider Haggard
... company all shareholders and no treasurer or director. If our finite minds formed a billion facts, then its mind, knowing our billion, would make a universe composed of a billion and one facts. But transcendental idealism is quite as unfriendly to active principles called souls as physiological psychology is, Kant having, as it thinks, definitively demolished them. And altho some disciples speak of the transcendental ego of apperception (which they celebrate as ...
— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James
... dispassionate, indifferent, nonchalant, unconcerned, composed; chilling, apathetic, repellent, distant, unfriendly, ceremonious; audacious, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming


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