comforting
adjective
affording comfort or solace.
uncomforting
-
a word derived from
comforting.
Example Sentences
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To the Editors: President Ford's words comprise the most uncomforting assessment of the State of the Union that the American people have had to hear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mencken is admired for his tickling wit, not for his uncomforting, uncomfortable common sense.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is not the truth often an uncomforting and uncomfortable thing?
From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody
Vernon understood, presently, that not even that evening at Thirion's could give the key to this uncomforting change.
From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit
"Except that your words are most uncertain and uncomforting, John."
From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
