unloving
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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To connect maternal regret with unloving and neglectful parenting is a careless assumption, according to Israeli sociologist Orna Donath, author of Regretting Motherhood: A Study.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
That isolation only makes us cold, cruel, unfriendly, unloving and incurious when we venture into the world and cross paths with all of the incredible people who inhabit it.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025
Even her sometime publisher called her “a mean, cruel, hard, unlovable, unloving human being.”
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
“Inside the play it felt possible that I was not a person defined by his adultery, or his unloving parents, or his lies, his failure as a father.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2021
It was a grim farm and a grim house, unloved and unloving.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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