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

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

Scholes acknowledged the uninviting concrete, and the DSA points to the challenges of the built environment in its report.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

“This is an excellent arrangement, I think. It gets Mrs. Dudley well away from here before dark and enables us to have our dinners without her uninviting company.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson