unhomely
- a word derived from homely.
Example Sentences
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Solastalgia speaks of a modern uncanny, in which a familiar place is rendered unrecognisable by climate change or corporate action: the home become suddenly unhomely around its inhabitants.
From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2016
Both shows present an unhomely vision of home, depicting it as a place of repressed longings and semi-functional objects.
From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2010
One of our 17th century poets has said, "Go where thou wilt . . . if thy soul is a stranger to thee, this whole world is unhomely."
From Time Magazine Archive
There is so often, too, something chilly and "unhomely," something pitiless and cruel, about quite rational reform, which alienates the poetic mind.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
He would willingly raid into the Scottish lowlands; but his courage failed him at the border, and he regarded England as a perilous, unhomely land.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
