unamiable

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But this could not last--and at length the young wife was driven to the sad conclusion that her mother-in-law was not only harsh, unamiable, and unforgiving, but destitute of moral and religious principle, and that the man she had married was worthy such ignoble parentage Did Althea then learn to regard her husband with scorn and contempt?

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  1. Not amiable or lovable; not inducing love; not adapted to gain affection; repelling love or kind advances; ill-natured; repulsive. These ladies of irresistible modesty are those who make virtue unamiable. Steele.

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  • Siegfried is no idiot; but he certainly is an unamiable, truculent savage. —  Richard Wagner
  • But we find at the same time that there was nothing unamiable or invidious in his shyness, and above all that there was nothing preponderantly gloomy. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Hawthorne, by Henry James, Junr.
  • He did not appear unamiable, but there seemed in him a sort of aloofness: this was Ezra Cornell Still another senator was George H. Andrews, from the Otsego district, the old Palatine country. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1
  • Others find a special interest in these 'trifles light as air,' because presenting 'confirmation strong' of the kindly nature of the man, taking no unamiable or affected part in the presentment of Every Man in His Humour_. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
  • Some were beginning to be cross and unamiable, when Pete's head again appeared If de ladies and gen'lemen wants a nice cool place, there's one over yonder in de arbor O, yes, come and take tea in the arbor," sang the girls, as they bounded down the steps and followed Pete, whose delight appeared to equal theirs, for although the sun could not penetrate the closely interwoven vines, which covered it, neither could the air, had there been a breath stirring. —  'Our Guy' or, The elder brother
 

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