uncompanionable
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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.
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
What an uncompanionable disagreeable person he must have been!
From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel
Instead of a living, loving will, manifest in the struggle with present conditions, Stoicism sees only an impersonal law, rigid, fixed, fatal, unalterable, unimprovable, uncompanionable.
From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
From White Fang by London, Jack
