unloving

/ ʌnˈlʌvɪŋ /

adjective

1. not feeling or showing love and affection

Example Sentences

"I fear that much of the nation will judge the Church of England as being abusive, hypocritical and unloving - they are, sadly, correct."

From BBC

Another member of the family has unlovingly ripped open the packaging and the slices have been sitting exposed in the fridge for several days.

From Salon

Even her sometime publisher called her “a mean, cruel, hard, unlovable, unloving human being.”

From New York Times

“When the government forces women to have children too young, bring children into unloving households, born to mothers who don’t love themselves, they get into a bad cycle.”

From New York Times

McVicar has emphasized Carlos’s similarities to Hamlet, and the emotional damage that has resulted from his broken relationship with Elisabeth and his unloving father.

From New York Times

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