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单词 uncompanionable
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Definition of uncompanionable in English:

uncompanionable

adjectiveʌnkəmˈpanjənəb(ə)l
  • Not friendly and sociable.

    难相处的;不爱交际的

    one patient's husband was blind and very uncompanionable
    Flavia spent a not uncompanionable quarter hour with him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He preferred living in jail to living with his first wife, who was his senior, and definitely uncompanionable.
    • But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
    • Ethics and human research thus have been seen as uncompanionable and opposing forces.
    • Nothing has ruined more trips than choosing uncompanionable companions to travel the wilderness with.
    • And fire proves to be, even in Pyne's learned treatment, as intangible and uncompanionable as a distant, cold god.
    • Gut Symmetries is flawed and uncompanionable, but there is something Milan Kundera-esque about it too.
    • It cannot be warrantably inferred from anything that has now been said, that we could mean to represent the believer as a miserable recluse or a moping solitaire - as uncompanionable.
    • While what I call combative hermits have previously relied on violence to get their way, their new manipulation of uncompanionable arguments has combined with violence to make people weak and dependent.
    • Of course, if you play e-mail chess, which I regard as a rather sterile and uncompanionable form of the game, much of the record-keeping takes care of itself.
    • Enjoyable company at first due to her smart manner, Holmes' Katie becomes progressively uncompanionable as things deteriorate, personally and dramatically.
    • There was novelty in the scheme; and as, with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.
    • What an uncompanionable disagreeable person he must have been!
    • The weary reader longs for the mercy of a qualification, a doubt, a hesitation; there is little sense, in her uncompanionable prose, of exploration occurring before our eyes, of tentative motions of thought reflected in a complex syntax.
    • The whole seemingly uncompanionable half-dozen, stabled together, may pass the long wet hours when the door is shut in livelier communication than is held in the servants’ hall or at the Dedlock Arms.
    • Never mind love, there are a lot of uncompanionable people around.
    • To see with ‘relentless accuracy,’ according to Moore, is not a matter of detachment and ‘the haggish, uncompanionable drawl of certitude.’
    • The only way out was via narrow and uncompanionable ‘companion-ladders.’
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