unaffectionate
IPA: ʌnʌfˈɛkʃʌnɪt
adjective
- Not affectionate; dispassionate.
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Examples of "unaffectionate" in Sentences
- Similarly, unaffectionate socialisation causes a tough minded attitude.
- His father was a cold, impersonal, and unaffectionate electrical engineer.
- Young men are more often impatient and unaffectionate of the world around them.
- He was raised in a harsh, hard-working unaffectionate, farming family, where emotions were never shown.
- Jesse, suspended from his job as police chief of Paradise, is a drunken recluse, much to the disgust of his oddly unaffectionate dog.
- From the launch of the series, Russell was portrayed as emotionally detached, unaffectionate toward his beautiful, albeit augmented, wife.
- Increasingly she withdrew from her children, becoming “uncommunicative,” “undemonstrative” and “unaffectionate” toward them in a way that she was not with her animals.111
- Women with high levels of oxytocin did not have a positive relationship with a partner; they viewed their husbands as unsupportive or unaffectionate and felt they could not open up to them.
- Yet unlike the Oak, cold and unaffectionate to the Ivy, and which leaves it to the Ivy to weave its own affectionate embrace, methinks thee, Yes meknows thee to be unlike to the Quercus for I feel that thy affections reciprocally are twining, too, around my heart while I