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单词 unwelcoming
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unwelcoming

(ʌnwelkəmɪŋ)
1. adjective
If someone is unwelcoming, or if they behave in an unwelcoming way, they are unfriendly or hostile when you visit or approach them.
[disapproval]
His manner was cold and unwelcoming.
Both women were unwelcoming, making little attempt to put Kathryn at her ease.
2. adjective
If you describe a place as unwelcoming, you mean that it looks unattractive or difficult to live or work in.
My room was cold and unwelcoming.

unwelcoming in British English

(ʌnˈwɛlkəmɪŋ)
adjective
1. 
(of a person) unfriendly or hostile when approached
Both women were unwelcoming, making little attempt to put Kathryn at her ease.
His manner was cold and unwelcoming.
2. 
(of a place) not attractive or difficult to live or work in
My room was cold and unwelcoming.

Examples of 'unwelcoming' in a sentence
unwelcoming

The woods seemed threatening to me, as no forest has ever seemed unwelcoming before.
Robin Hobb THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN (2002)
Even in the pale sunlight it was dark and grim, as unwelcoming as the bleak landscape beyond the garden walls.
Adam, Paul A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH (2002)
Then he sank back on to the unwelcoming tree-stump, muttering, `How right you are!
Low, Ona TO HIS JUST DESSERTS (2002)
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