forbidding
adjective
grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister.
forbiddingness
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a word derived from
forbidding.
Example Sentences
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You may have to try them many times; there is something of Nature's rudeness and forbiddingness, not only at the first, but probably always.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
Aladdin frowned at Larch with all the forbiddingness that he could muster, but Larch was imperturbable.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris
