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Unfriendly

adjective

Not easy to understand or use.

Not disposed to friendship or friendliness. "An unfriendly action to take"

Not friendly. Synonym: inimical. "An inimical critic"

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

... violence" would exercise a wholesome influence in checking this national habit; if Great Britain and the United States and the other powers would set the example by refusing to have any diplomatic dealings with General Huerta, such an unfriendly attitude would discourage other forceful intriguers from attempting to repeat his experiment. The result would be that the decent elements in Mexico and other Latin-American countries would at last assert themselves, establish a constitutional system, and select their governments by ...

— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick

... render a peaceful settlement impossible, and he promised to make the most strenuous efforts to obtain a prompt consideration of England's claims. He set to work energetically for this purpose. His difficulties were greatly increased by the unfriendly conduct of the Spanish envoy, who was on terms of confidence with the Patriots, and went about everywhere declaring {160} that Walpole was trying to deceive the English people as well as the Spanish Government. It must have needed all Walpole's ...

— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

... those of another ward that the intervention of the senate was necessary in order to obtain from King Alfonso (in 1448) supplementary laws to obviate the evil.[28] In like manner the members of different confraternities are often unfriendly. In Modica it is a rare thing for a man devoted to St. George to marry a woman devoted to St. Peter. An excellent young lady of Syracuse, devoted to St. Philip and engaged to a distinguished young man of the same city who was a member of the confraternity of the ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various

... and the white man smoked a friendly pipe. They would probably have smoked even if it had been an unfriendly pipe! ...

— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne

... boys would leave anything to see Morn in a fit, and he always had a large crowd round him as soon as the cry went out that he was beginning to have one. They watched the hapless creature with grave, unpitying, yet not unfriendly interest, too ignorant of the dark ills of life to know how deeply tragic was the spectacle that entertained them, and how awfully present in Morn's contortions was the mystery of God's ways with his children, some of whom he gives to happiness and some to misery. ...

— A Boy's Town • W. D. Howells

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