unloving
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Raised by two self-focused and unloving parents, scarred by their divorce and her father’s abandonment, Hepburn vowed that she would never allow any children of hers to feel as unwanted as she did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
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
McVicar has emphasized Carlos’s similarities to Hamlet, and the emotional damage that has resulted from his broken relationship with Elisabeth and his unloving father.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
It was a grim farm and a grim house, unloved and unloving.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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