loving
[luhv-ing]
- feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
Origin of loving
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Examples from the Web for unloving
Contemporary Examples
Her resentful and unloving husband Edward Casubon, and the idealistic but impoverished Will Ladislaw.
Dean tries to reconnect with his mother, but she remains distant and unloving.
Historical Examples
A blessing on them as they go, softening our hard, unloving hearts!
I suggest that the beam in our eye is simply our unloving reaction to the other man's mote.
The Calvary RoadRoy Hession
It is dreadful to look forward to a cold, unloving existence.
Helen and ArthurCaroline Lee Hentz
Here it is the work of your own hearts, of your loving or unloving thoughts.
Seen and UnseenE. Katharine Bates
It is the first caress her unloving husband has ever offered her.
Guy Kenmore's Wife and The Rose and the LilyMrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
unloving
- not feeling or showing love and affection
loving
- feeling, showing, or indicating love and affection
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Word Origin and History for unloving
loving
Old English lufenda (see love (v.)). Loving cup is attested from 1808. Lovingkindness was Coverdale's word.
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Idioms and Phrases with unloving
loving
see tender loving care.
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