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unaccommodating

  • a word derived from accommodating.
    accommodating
    adjective
    easy to deal with; eager to help or please; obliging.

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The accompanying material may occasionally press too hard in trying to domesticate what is, in the end, undomesticable, but the books themselves continue to exert their peculiar, unaccommodating force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Since beginning in Norway in June, the crew of the Abel Tasman have already sailed around Iceland and Greenland, before entering the unaccommodating waters that run between northernmost Canada and the Arctic.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024

You deserve more than a coercive, unaccommodating partner.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2021

Only after weathering months of failed group therapy and ineffective medications, damaging misdiagnoses and an unaccommodating insurer, did she at last begin to find a sense of calm.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017

To talk of the "accommodation" of words so eminently unaccommodating, is unreasonable, and even absurd.

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon