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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uhn-in-vahy-ting |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌʌn ɪnˈvaɪ tɪŋ |
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Définition of uninviting
Origin :- 1680s, from un- (1) + inviting.
- adj disagreeable, not pleasant
- If its exterior were uninviting, the scene as we entered was sinister.
- Extract from : « Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled » by Hudson Stuck
- Slowly the vessels coasted along the uninviting shore, looking in vain for any inlet or any river's mouth.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
- The scenery of the river is flat and uninviting, but eminently characteristic.
- Extract from : « In Eastern Seas » by J. J. Smith
- The surface of Greenland was cold, dreary, and uninviting to a degree.
- Extract from : « Doctor Jones' Picnic » by S. E. Chapman
- The culs-de-sac, uninviting to eye and nose, were as Italian as the church.
- Extract from : « Riviera Towns » by Herbert Adams Gibbons
- Somehow or other the church looked cold and raw and uninviting.
- Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- It seemed as though it feared to rise in the grey, damp, uninviting atmosphere.
- Extract from : « The Emperor, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- There are high and uninviting quaternary bluffs that lure only the eye.
- Extract from : « Blue Ridge Country » by Jean Thomas
- The companions peered through the door at the uninviting interior.
- Extract from : « Desert Conquest » by A. M. Chisholm
- The whole covered with tufts of spinifex, barren, wretched, and uninviting.
- Extract from : « Spinifex and Sand » by David W Carnegie
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