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

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 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

Many of the remaining casinos are windowless, self-contained bubbles that have turned the surrounding streets into uninviting walkways.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Up until the early nineteenth century, Cherokee tribes occasionally hunted in the area, but found the terrain otherwise too rugged and uninviting.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam