Adjective : an inhospitable rocky coast. From Dictionary.com.
The inhospitableness of the globe was clearly illustrated by incredible bodies of water, thick masses of moist air; and tropical vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
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 inhospitableness to orgs, making secrecy a bonus rather than a necessity—I watched the door, half expecting Zo to burst through with a last word. From Wordnik.com. [Wired] Reference
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, was not indicative of the real character of the inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II] Reference
In thus tracing backward the condition of a now fair and productive place of human dwelling and subsistence, it may easily be recollected, what a vast number of the earth's inhabitants there are whose places of dwelling are in all those states of worse cultivation and commodiousness, and what multitudes leading a miserable and precarious life amidst the inhospitableness of the waste, howling wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance] Reference
Does she have a reputation for inhospitableness? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
Our inhospitableness has brought on just what we thought we could avoid. ". From Wordnik.com. [Invisible Links] Reference
We've gained a reputation for inhospitableness at Las Palmas that I want to overcome. ". From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Sunset] Reference
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