endear
verb (used with object)
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved.
unendeared
-
a word derived from
endear.
Example Sentences
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Prepare to be unendeared – as the hirsute American offers his unlikely backing to the campaign to make Boris Johnson the prime minister of Britain.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2012
Un is prefixed to all participles made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeared.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
But it is not in a land of strangers, it is not in a country unendeared to us by previous acts of kindness that it has occurred.
From Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France by William Wirt
