unloving

Example Sentences

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To connect maternal regret with unloving and neglectful parenting is a careless assumption, according to Israeli sociologist Orna Donath, author of Regretting Motherhood: A Study.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

That isolation only makes us cold, cruel, unfriendly, unloving and incurious when we venture into the world and cross paths with all of the incredible people who inhabit it.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025

He spoke of his mother as aloof and unloving and preferred the company of his “noble father,” who worked as a railroad station master and housed the family in an apartment above the Tulln station.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2024

“Inside the play it felt possible that I was not a person defined by his adultery, or his unloving parents, or his lies, his failure as a father.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2021

He is dressed in white shorts and a white shirt, an outfit which makes him look like a boy...a good boy...the only son of monied, unloving tycoons.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez