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