unwelcoming
Example Sentences
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It can be reclusive and even unwelcoming, but it can’t attack its neighbors, blockade international waters, or export extremism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
But research conducted for TikTok this September, based on a small survey of 1,001 UK respondents aged 16 to 25, reported that 35% felt classical music could be "exclusive and unwelcoming".
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
But for students like Lucy—and for Jack and Harper, who’d already felt unsafe long before the shooting—those gestures couldn’t reach the part of campus that still felt unwelcoming.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025
But trans activist Kanan Durham says Surf City USA and Orange County in general have grown more and more unwelcoming — in some cases hostile — for members of the LGBTQ+ community.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024
These barracks were as starkly unwelcoming as theirs.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
