unfriendly
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While Platner's non-political background elevated him in a climate unfriendly to establishment candidates, several scandals emerged that rocked his campaign.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“That makes an unfriendly environment for Asian FX,” they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
One thing I can’t play is family unfriendly tunes.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Cuba fired back, calling the dismissal an "unfriendly and unprecedented act that seriously damages the history of friendly and cooperative ties between the two countries," Havana's foreign ministry said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Anastasia stared at me, frank and unfriendly; Do not mess with me, hairless one.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
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 Fuller, Henry Blake
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 Oemler, Marie Conway
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
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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 Howells, William Dean
He feels that he is engaged in single combat with Nature at her unfriendliest.
From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
The expression of the miner's eyes promised the unfriendliest kind of "capers" if he should ever get an opportunity to cut them.
From The Talking Leaves An Indian Story by Stoddard, William Osborn
