uninviting

Example Sentences

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Loyal customers have complained about long wait times and an increasingly uninviting atmosphere in stores.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2025

The island, given an appropriately sickly, uninviting sheen by cinematographer Mathias Herndl, clearly wasn’t big enough for all of these new-world experimenters.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025

Miles, who was known as Tank at the time, had a skull-and-crossbones collar and a tendency to snarl and growl from his bed in an uninviting manner.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2024

Animals “are broadening their foraging range and going into more traditionally uninviting and unnatural areas to try to get food and keep alive,” he says.

From Scientific American • Jun. 13, 2023

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling