forbidding
Example Sentences
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In this forbidding climate, Genly Ai, an emissary from Terra, another planet, struggles to understand a place where gender roles, modes of communication and beliefs are entirely different from those at home.
They are part of a growing network of “dual-use” facilities—newly built or expanded and modernized over a decade—that dot the Tibetan plateau’s forbidding landscape.
“At the time we received and began using those addresses, there was no policy forbidding leasing or requiring the IPs to stay in-region,” he said in an email.
Barolo, Barbaresco and Brunello might be the greatest of all Italian red wines, but they can be quite pricey, not to mention forbidding in their youth, requiring years if not decades to soften.
The locomotive was a gleaming scarlet, with a forbidding front grille of inky black.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
