unaccommodating

Example Sentences

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Since beginning in Norway in June, the crew of the Abel Tasman have already sailed around Iceland and Greenland, before entering the unaccommodating waters that run between northernmost Canada and the Arctic.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024

You deserve more than a coercive, unaccommodating partner.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2021

Thunberg’s is a voice of unaccommodating clarity that reminds me of Soviet-era dissidents.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 2, 2018

Only after weathering months of failed group therapy and ineffective medications, damaging misdiagnoses and an unaccommodating insurer, did she at last begin to find a sense of calm.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2017

The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders,—nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp like a stubborn fact, as it was,—all helped the emphasis.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright