unfriendliness

Examples of unfriendliness in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness. Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024 Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another. Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 Researchers found unfriendliness of staff was also linked to speed and order accuracy, and therefore had the potential to impact companies’ bottom lines. Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2022 Citing cryptocurrency’s environmental unfriendliness, Tesla abruptly rebuked Bitcoin as payment just 49 days later. Basemwasef, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022 The plastics industry was, and is, the symbol for everything uncool: an inauthentic material, the boring bourgeois business of making and selling it, all with a whiff of environmental unfriendliness. Kyle Harper, WSJ, 6 May 2022 After the check cleared, though, is when the bank lived up to its reputation for customer unfriendliness. Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021 But for me, UnitedHealthcare’s moves underline, yet again, the inherent patient-unfriendliness of a $4-trillion healthcare system run primarily by for-profit corporations. Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021

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“Unfriendliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfriendliness. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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