affectionate
adjective
showing, indicating, or characterized by affection or love; fondly tender.
unaffectionate
-
a word derived from
affectionate.
Example Sentences
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She warns her son, “She’s portraying herself as a woman cruelly betrayed by an unaffectionate husband — half the women in England can relate to that scenario.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2019
He explained that he hadn’t yet told his parents about his diagnosis, as they were aloof and unaffectionate.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
The men on “Rebellious Soul” are lame, emotionally brutal and unaffectionate.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2013
Although she takes very seriously, professionally, impersonally her job as music-hall dancer and she and her partner are on a mutually unaffectionate business basis she wants someone to love.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an aggressive, unaffectionate interest; strange indeed, to pay so much attention to something you did not like.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
