as in hostile
marked by opposition or ill will
the proposal received an unexpectedly inhospitable response from the city council
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Recent Examples of inhospitable
The researchers never expected to find a 30-acre medieval city in a relatively inhospitable climate around 7,000 feet above sea level.
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
Thanks to its native inhospitable growing climate, cannabis indica plants have a relatively fast growing cycle—half that of some cannabis sativa strains.
—Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island Near the North Pole
With evocative text and spectacular photography, Cecilia shares the joys and challenges of adapting to an inhospitable climate.
—Cecilia Blomdahl, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
Nor did the instinct to humanize Fifth Avenue, which in the past 70 years has mostly grown inhospitable to movement that isn’t on four wheels.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
Thanks to its native inhospitable growing climate, cannabis indica plants have a relatively fast growing cycle—half that of some cannabis sativa strains.
—Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island Near the North Pole
With evocative text and spectacular photography, Cecilia shares the joys and challenges of adapting to an inhospitable climate.
—Cecilia Blomdahl, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
Nor did the instinct to humanize Fifth Avenue, which in the past 70 years has mostly grown inhospitable to movement that isn’t on four wheels.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
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