Adjective : an affectionate embrace. ,your affectionate brother. From Dictionary.com.
The crowd gave generous but unaffectionate acclaim. From Wordnik.com. [Penalty]
The wry look she cast at his back was not unaffectionate. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Arms outstretched for an unaffectionate embrace, the Coway charged. From Wordnik.com. [Splinter Of The Mind's Eye]
Saudi men tend to be unaffectionate, fickle and just plain selfish. From Wordnik.com. ["I have decided to remain unmarried because, frankly, divorce and the scrutiny that goes with it scares me."] Reference
And if you do, you will not find me an inattentive or unaffectionate husband. From Wordnik.com. [The Obedient Bride]
While never harsh and never neglectful, she had been humorless and unaffectionate. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
I do not think a decision like that makes me unaffectionate or distant, just considerate. From Wordnik.com. [Attachment Parenting: Baby Wearing vs. Car Seat Lugging vs. Stroller Pushing | Thingamababy] Reference
He was raised in a harsh, hard-working unaffectionate, farming family, where emotions were never shown. From Wordnik.com. [I wasn't going to post this as it is so personal.] Reference
She couldn't imagine her grandmother as anything other than stiff and unyielding, her grandfather quietly rigid and unaffectionate. From Wordnik.com. [Ryan]
Boyle depicts his whirling, pestilential world like an amused, not unaffectionate Hieronymus Bosch, graphically detailing the 31 flavors of greed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
I have just gone through a depressing dinner date with my boyfriend who really needs more sleep because he's cranky and unaffectionate when he's not sleeping well. From Wordnik.com. [Dear God/dess] Reference
Can they even imagine the frighteningly unaffectionate, if not downright liverish, stare with which people have come to greet each such well-publicized and self-regarding near miss?. From Wordnik.com. [Rim Shots At History] Reference
Increasingly she withdrew from her children, becoming “uncommunicative,” “undemonstrative” and “unaffectionate” toward them in a way that she was not with her animals.111. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
While I usually apply that quote tongue in cheek and affectionately to myself, in this case it fits in the most negative, unaffectionate, accusatory, and insightful way directed at Karl Rove. From Wordnik.com. [Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Young John Allen to Miss Mary Houston,September 7, 1854] Reference
How different this unaffectionate "love" from the love of which our poets sing!. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
The popular notion of cats is that they are cold, demanding and unaffectionate pets. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
Mostly unaffectionate English family, he ignores all “proper” Victorian body behavior. From Wordnik.com. [NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES OF THE IRISH » Sociological Images] Reference
Also, Poirot could hardly be called aloof or unaffectionate to his sidekick, Captain Hastings. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
His devotion to the principles of pure despotism, renders him unaffectionate to our governments. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)] Reference
He was frugal in his expenditures, honest in his business relations, but unaffectionate in his family life. From Wordnik.com. [Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois] Reference
What tears, secret but deep, bitter but unreproaching, have I retired to shed, when I caught her cold and unaffectionate glance!. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
Rosamond was not unaffectionate, and not ungrateful; but she inherited much of her father's commonness and frivolity of character. From Wordnik.com. [After Dark] Reference
The mercury will bibulously drink into itself all the fine invisible gold, while the unaffectionate sand goes on, bereaved of its wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Forces] Reference
A sick child is often a changed child, changed in all the fundamental emotions, -- cranky, capricious, unaffectionate, difficult to care for. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
He grew up in modest circumstances, with a father who was an accountant - an ornery, unaffectionate man who drank too much, as Ms. Ramirez recalls Mr. Gagosian describing him to her. From Wordnik.com. [news | LD | http://www.the-dispatch.com] Reference
And let me, finally, correct the impression, if I have by chance, in developing this latter point, given any colour to the idea that his character was hard, logical, unaffectionate, unloving. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College] Reference
Miss Arundel, with her cool, unaffectionate interest, had, of course, never been "had" at all, but Henrietta had imagined that when Miss Arundel said "Yes, quite right, that's a good answer," it was a kind of beginning of friendship. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Miss Symons] Reference
She could not possibly write facts, she thought, so her poor little letters were restrained and unlike herself, and to the warm-hearted souls in New York, even appearing stiff and unaffectionate, as if her aristocratic surroundings had chilled her love for them. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
These ideas were so familiar to my mind that I intreated my mother to lay no restraint upon her inclinations, for I well knew how to provide for myself: but she was wounded by the request, and begged I would not kill her, by a supposition so cutting, so unaffectionate, and so unamiable. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
She was keen, ambitious, worldly, not unaffectionate nor unkind; very proud, a little of the devotee, -- because it was the fashion to be so, -- an enthusiastic admirer of military glory, and a most prying, searching, intriguing schemer of politics without the slightest talent for the science. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
Now let us go into the other room and see Annie; otherwise Roswitha will accuse me of being an unaffectionate father. ". From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
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