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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

He cited regulatory, fiscal and trade policies that he said had turned unfriendly to growth and damaged what the economy could produce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The ruling also suspends a Pentagon designation of Anthropic, creator of the Claude AI model, as a national security supply chain risk -- a label typically reserved for organizations from unfriendly foreign countries.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

The exchange went down after the unfriendly parties apparently spotted one another on a Delta flight from San Francisco to New York’s JFK airport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

The hobbits had no welcome for that light; unfriendly it seemed, revealing them in their helplessness — little squeaking ghosts that wandered among the ash-heaps of the Dark Lord.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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 William Osborn Stoddard

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

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

From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm

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