unfriendliness

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Recent Examples of unfriendliness 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfriendliness
Noun
  • Naroditsky’s untimely death has shined a spotlight on the dark underbelly of the game that fellow pros say brought undue hostility upon the chess star in his final months.
    Corey Williams, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Presidents have wide latitude to deploy the Guard, and protection of federal property is an obvious justification in this season of violent hostility to ICE.
    Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There is plenty of antagonism between ICE agents and anti-ICE protesters.
    Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The entry of taxi-hailing apps Uber and Bolt in Kenya was greeted with antagonism — strikes by traditional taxi operators, protests over pricing by Uber drivers, and even intervention by government agencies.
    Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Create a communications and social media platform that is wired to fight back with the same fierceness and determination as the IDF.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The symbolic fierceness was backed up by AVG pilots in combat.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a derby that former Manchester United captain Roy Keane bemoaned for the lack of combativeness and local representation, Khusanov played like a kid from Stockport finally getting to live out his dream of flattening everyone in a red jersey.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Republican politicians have canceled meetings or opted to hold them virtually in response to criticism and combativeness from voters, and some Democratic town halls have also been targeted.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • On social media, Tan was pugilistic to the point of belligerence, casting his political enemies as corrupt malefactors responsible for the despoliation of his beloved city.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The encounter by Canadian aircraft monitoring these vessels with Chinese aircraft points to both Beijing’s backing of the secretive state and its belligerence in the wider region.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Although the balloon incident has not been directly linked to Moscow, Lithuania's border closures add to tensions spiked by accusations of Russian incursions into NATO airspace amid Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Because taking league matches to America, Australia, Saudi Arabia or anywhere else would be an act of aggression.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Unfriendliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfriendliness. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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