uninviting
Americanadjective
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The island, given an appropriately sickly, uninviting sheen by cinematographer Mathias Herndl, clearly wasn’t big enough for all of these new-world experimenters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025
Miles, who was known as Tank at the time, had a skull-and-crossbones collar and a tendency to snarl and growl from his bed in an uninviting manner.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024
Am I the asshole for uninviting them from my upcoming party after they insisted I uninvite the new wife?
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2024
Many of the remaining casinos are windowless, self-contained bubbles that have turned the surrounding streets into uninviting walkways.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Up until the early nineteenth century, Cherokee tribes occasionally hunted in the area, but found the terrain otherwise too rugged and uninviting.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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