uncompanionable

Example Sentences

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The other servants, too, were not only utterly uncompanionable, but deeply jealous of her, resenting her gentle breeding, her careful speech, her dainty personal ways, her room to herself, her loyalty to her mistress.

From The Mystery of Mary by Hill, Grace Livingston

He pictured himself as an old grouch, soured on the world, and surely uncompanionable.

From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by Harney, George S.

Gilpin has left the following quaint account of the eccentric old bibliomaniac, Henry Hastings, the uncompanionable neighbor of Anthony Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury.

From Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs by Harper, Henry H.

Miss Earle had noticed the depressing effect which even the sight of the blonde lady exercised on Morris the day before, and she looked forward, therefore, to rather an uncompanionable breakfast.

From In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories by Barr, Robert

So uncompanionable, indeed, was he that he stepped outside to the southward terrace as though to avoid these others, and, but for the cards, the observant portier might have thought them strangers to each other.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles