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Budapest's promise of pragmatic co-operation was worth absolutely nothing, he complained, adding that Hungary's "extremely unfriendly step constitutes an unprecedented and ungrounded escalation".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Come to think of it, not unfriendly at all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The rush for cooling units comes despite longstanding scepticism towards air conditioning in France, with eight in 10 people viewing it as environmentally unfriendly, according to one survey.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Much of this stems from hubris about India’s prospects, which led to policies unfriendly to investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

I intercepted a few unfriendly glances from Lauren during lunch, which I didn’t understand until we were all walking out of the room together.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

The money piece never quite shook out on the avant-garde, and by the 1980s the lofts had mostly closed amid rising rents and unfriendlier civic attitudes toward semi-legal assembly.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

And the gallant Red Admiral, the brave beautiful Red Admiral that had dared unfriendlier gales, trimmed his painted sails to a wind that was the breath of spring.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

Some of the less grateful passages had been censored by Medora's own hand and the unfriendlier of the critics thus partially disarmed in advance.

From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller

The tale results in a flashback to a Dickensian-looking period when Sesame Street was known as “the unfriendliest street in town” and ancestors of all the current gang spent their days crabbing at one another.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2016

He feels that he is engaged in single combat with Nature at her unfriendliest.

From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm

She clasped a chain about the hound's neck, and they set off westward towards the house of Fergus Fionnliath, who was reputed to be the unfriendliest man in the world to a dog.

From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

To find out that you are not so good or generous or magnanimous as you thought is, next to having other people find it out, probably the unfriendliest discovery that can be made.

From A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories by William Dean Howells

I am in Italy—in Genoa, to be sure, which of all Italian cities passes for the unfriendliest to the Muse: but that is my probation.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch