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unfriendly

ənˈfrɛndli
WordNet
Sheet with 10 depictions of an unfriendly baron who treats his staff badly. A caption below each image. Numbered top left: Série 9. - No. 3.
Sheet with 10 depictions of an unfriendly baron who treats his staff badly. A caption below each image. Numbered top left: Série 9. - No. 3.
  1. (adj) unfriendly
    not disposed to friendship or friendliness "an unfriendly coldness of manner","an unfriendly action to take"
  2. (adj) unfriendly
    not easy to understand or use "user-unfriendly"
  3. (adj) unfriendly
    very unfavorable to life or growth "a hostile climate","an uncongenial atmosphere","an uncongenial soil","the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
  4. (adj) unfriendly
    not friendly "an unfriendly act of aggression","an inimical critic"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Unfriendly
    Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health.
  2. Unfriendly
    Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. unfriendly
    Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; inimical: as, an unfriendly neighbor.
  2. unfriendly
    Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object.
  3. unfriendly
    Synonyms Hostile, inimical, antagonistic. See amicable.
  4. unfriendly
    In an unkind manner; not as a friend.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Unfriendly
    un-frend′li not friendly, kind, or favourable
  2. (adv) Unfriendly
    in an unkind manner
Quotations
Walter Bagehot
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
Walter Bagehot
Usage in the news

Nat'l Unfriend Day gets start here in the ROC. bee.com

Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker celebrated the Jimmy Kimmel's idea for "National Unfriend Day" by performing an original song this week in Rochester, New York. bee.com

Jimmy Kimmel Calls for "National Unfriend Day". cbsnews.com

The word of the year is " unfriend ". nwn.com

Florida judges, lawyers must ' unfriend ' on Facebook. gwinnettdailypost.com

" Unfriend " the Word of the Year. cbsnews.com

Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker help Jimmy Kimmel celebrate National UnFriend Day with a new song. 98country.com

Someone of them can sound pretty harsh or they're not at all what you believe in so, simply enough, you can unfriend them on Facebook. kffm.com

Check out the "Unfreid Song" from Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker and then leave a comment below about who you're unfriending and why. catcountry1073.com

Unfriending is the new way to tell someone you are over them. kfmx.com

You're About to Get Unfriended . 1007mixfm.com

Have you been unfriended and don't know why. 1007mixfm.com

I found this list of reasons why people get unfriended on Facebook. 1007mixfm.com

A couple of years ago, Jimmy Kimmel declared November 17th "National UnFriend Day". 943thepoint.com

The Cunningham family had an unfriendly experience at a New Hampshire Friendly's restaurant last month. okv.com

Usage in scientific papers

Since, however, in general pseudo-Riemannian space-time no preferred coordinates of this type exist, this manifold seems to present an unfriendly environment for canonical quantization.
Quantum Theory within the Framework of General Relativity

Moreover, the rule that governed the bugs’ movement is inherently asymmetric: every site’s rotor begins pointing East, so there was no guarantee that the set of occupied sites would even appear symmetric under rotation by 90◦ , much less by unfriendly angles.
Goldbug Variations

Strings are particularly unfriendly structures for the peeling algorithm; peeling takes linear time to peel such structures.
The Set of Solutions of Random XORSAT Formulae

Surprisingly and contrary to common wisdom, classical Newtonian physics is more hostile and unfriendly to determinism than either quantum mechanics or special relativity .
Zeno meets modern science

We can model in this fashion the reactions of agents to `unfriendly' neighbourhood.
Simple queueing approach to segregation dynamics in Schelling model

Usage in literature

However, we do not wish to take steps that might appear unfriendly. "With Moore at Corunna" by G. A. Henty

I don't say, though, that I feel unfriendly to Mr. Morgan. "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington

The farmer's wife pushed a piece of bread towards his coffee-cup and made up an unfriendly face. "What Sami Sings with the Birds" by Johanna Spyri

And can ye thus unfriended leave me? "Lyrical Ballads 1798" by William Wordsworth

Mulready started and fixed him with a troubled and unfriendly stare. "The Black Bag" by Louis Joseph Vance

The painters here, let me tell you, are very unfriendly to me. "Albert Durer" by T. Sturge Moore

It was not unfriendly; it was, indeed, consistently respectful, almost reverential. "K" by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Now, as he came into the lounge from the big oak staircase, he instantly realized that he had entered an unfriendly atmosphere. "The Yellow Streak" by Valentine Williams

She gave him a single sidelong look, unfriendly, even fierce. "The Magnetic North" by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

Somehow, the thought made her feel very small and alone and unfriended. "The Power and the Glory" by Grace MacGowan Cooke

Usage in poetry
The blind goes out, and I wander
To the old, unfriendly sea,
The lonelier for the memory
That walks like a ghost with me.
Helpless, unfriended, forsaken;
Haunted and tracked by the Past,
With fragments of pitiless voices,
And desolate faces aghast!
All nations live by ideals; but in need
They linger with no ethic obsolete;
They bend the knee to no unfriendly creed;
But tramp their values firm beneath an army's feet.
VI. For they tell me, alone and unfriended thou'rt left
On the pillow of sickness to languish;
By absence, by fate, of the fond friend bereft
Who could feel for, and solace, thy anguish.
Unfriendly friendly universe,
I pack your stars into my purse,
And bid you so farewell.
That I can leave you, quite go out,
Go out, go out beyond all doubt,
My father says, is the miracle.
With all a mother’s doting love a mother yearned for him,
And watching for his quick return, a sister’s eye grew dim,
And, dearer still, a gentle girl, his fair affianced bride,—
And yet, with all these loving ones, unfriended, had he died.