(a.) Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
(a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
(2) Taken together, these correlations indicate that the wasp may render the tick inhospitable to both pathogens.
(3) All diseases and symptoms were included on the basis of four criteria: conditions which pose immediate life or limb threat; conditions which potentially require inhospital treatment; conditions which give rise to significant discomfort to the patient and conditions with medicolegal implications.
(4) Where there were hospitals, they were usually inadequately provided for and inhospitable.
(5) It’s as if the 21-million-strong population of the Chinese capital is engaged in a mass city-wide rehearsal for life on an inhospitable planet.
(6) It was concluded that survival after inhospital cardiopulmonary arrest is significantly increased if house officers who staff the Code teams are trained in ACLS.
(7) Meanwhile, each supercharged natural disaster produces new irony laden snapshots of a climate increasingly inhospitable to the very industries most responsible for its warming.
(8) In Lima, Peru, overall contraceptives prevalence is 13% higher among women in inhospital family planning services that offer postplacental and immediate postpartum IUD insertion than it is in those that do not include them.
(9) The adjustment process is divided into seven distinct stages: 1) transplant proposal, 2) evaluation, 3) awaiting a donor organ, 4) perioperative period, 5) inhospital convalescence, 6) discharge, and 7) post-discharge adaptation.
(10) Inhospital variables were found to be the best predictors for all three outcome measures.
(11) A distant, inhospitable but resource-rich land, Chukotkans were compensated handsomely for living there under Soviet power (as the US still compensates Alaskans).
(12) Twenty-four patients were conscious on admission; their inhospital mortality rate was 4%.
(13) Between October 1989-October 1990, health workers collected data on clinical presentation, receipt of transfusion, inhospital survival, and a capillary blood sample from 2433 12-year old children (median age=10 months) admitted to the pediatric ward of the Siaya District Hospital in rural western Kenya to determine when transfusion influences survival of children in the hospital.
(14) These data indicate that, in patients with postanoxic coma, early clinical evidence of severe neurologic dysfunction is predictive of neither inhospital death nor neurologic sequelae.
(15) Urban and rural differences in place of death were significant for two places of death; street and highway, and inhospital deaths.
(16) This study assesses the inhospital costs of neonatal intensive care.
(17) At baseline, mean inhospital plasma glucose and HbA1 concentrations and insulin dosages were identical in the groups randomized to CSII or CIT.
(18) The burn rates were based on data collected during the National Burn Demonstration Project and consisted of patients who sustained burns between July 1, 1978, and June 30, 1979, and who required inhospital care.
(19) The families of children who sustain abdominal or GU trauma have special teaching needs related to inhospital or home management, as well as long-term outcomes of the injury.
(20) Rejection of helminth parasites from rodent small bowel is associated with partial villous atrophy and crypt hypertrophy, which is probably part of the host response making the mucosa inhospitable to the parasites.
Unfriendly
Definition:
(a.) Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.
(a.) Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coulson said he had been on '"not unfriendly terms" with Hayman during his time at the News of the World: "I may have seen him socially, but we were not pals.
(2) Because we see a regime as unfriendly, we assume the worst motives and intentions, fuelling our perception of threat.
(3) And they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.” On Monday the Russian foreign ministry said that US-Russian relations are enduring a difficult period “because of the targeted unfriendly actions of Washington”.
(4) "Declaring the EU offices to be a legitimate attack target is more than the unfriendly act of a machine that knows no bounds and may be out of the control of politics and the courts."
(5) During the cold war, the US also employed economic sanctions to destabilise unfriendly governments, especially in Latin America, though they do not appear to have played more than a minor role, even where regime change eventually occurred.
(6) Facebook, which was targeted last year by the Greenpeace Unfriend Coal campaign, is building a new data centre in Sweden, its largest yet, to be powered by hydroelectricity.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russia cancels Turkey meeting and warns its citizens not to visit The Russian defence ministry said on its website that it considered the “actions of the Turkish air force as an unfriendly act”, adding that it was “designing a complex of measures directed to respond such incidents”.
(8) Oddly, that unfriendly-to-women aura remained in not-gay David Steel's milieu.
(9) He added: “It is nothing less than an unfriendly act which is already having a very serious impact on bilateral relations.” Natalegawa said summoning the ambassador was “not considered a light step” but was the “minimum” that could be done to “consolidate the situation”.
(10) "Hate the new website as it is so tricky to use," wrote Sarah Milford, while another customer, Kay Floyd, commented: "Refuse to shop online as the website is the most user unfriendly and awkward to navigate.
(11) Gay's the Word has survived having its stock seized on grounds of indecency by customs officers; it has been threatened by soaring rents, unfriendly council policies, and the rise of internet selling.
(12) High P scorers have been found to be cold, unfriendly, hostile, etc., and it is suggested that the lower P scores of the intravenous users may be partly due to possible hostility-reducing effects of the narcotics used by this group.
(13) This, said Kadyrov, was because Putin is a “wise, courageous, resolute Head, who managed to withstand unfriendly campaign, which is conducted by the USA and its assistants”.
(14) Liu Xiaoming more than hinted that the 11th-hour postponement was seen as an unfriendly move and that the new government risked jeopardising future relations with China more broadly.
(15) China must be aware that Palmer’s rampant rascality serves as a symbol that Australian society has an unfriendly attitude toward China.
(16) It is not, perhaps, the easiest time to become the new chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), especially with a general election on the way and the voluble, airwaves-friendly but coalition-unfriendly Clare Gerada act to follow.
(17) Having an occupant of the White House who is unfriendly towards your business is not a comfortable position,” Saunders added.
(18) This doesn’t bother me now that I’m settled in but in the beginning I was very unhappy in what I thought was a cold, unfriendly city.
(19) People often assume that budget flights are somehow more eco-unfriendly than expensive ones.
(20) "The government gave the clear impression that this had been done at the request of the Church of England … but the bishop of Leicester said: 'We didn't ask for it' … and was very upset about it because it gave the impression that the Church of England were unfriendly towards gays."