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n. - Having a disposition that is not disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity; The environmental condition in a region that lacks a favorable climate or terrain for life or growth.

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  • Adjective : an inhospitable rocky coast
  • The inhospitableness of the globe was clearly illustrated by incredible bodies of water, thick masses of moist air; and tropical vegetation.
  • As Jude worried through the logistics of releasing the dead-zone coordinates to the mechs without revealing them to BioMax—though the whole beauty of the location was its...
  • The perpetually closed door and shut-up rooms of ceremony, the largest and most conspicuous of all in the house, gave an air of inhospitableness which, I should hope,...
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