inhospitality
noun
in·hos·pi·tal·i·ty
(ˌ)in-ˌhä-spə-ˈta-lə-tē 
: the quality or state of being inhospitable
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Usually evoked as an unfavorable metaphor, swampy wetlands have long borne a reputation for mucky inhospitality.
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Riley Farrell, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2022
The inhospitality of the vaccinated body to SARS-CoV-2 is what’s given many researchers hope that long COVID, too, will be rarer among the immunized, though that connection is still being explored.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021
Here, there are no villains, just the cruel inhospitality of space, dumb luck and the different taxonomies of heroism, decency and sacrifice that the Kingfisher crew members represent.
—Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
What some might see as severity or inhospitality is to its occupant a reminder to live and design deliberately.
—New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
And yet the Mall in Washington is commonly regarded as America’s noblest civic space, while the plaza in Albany is seen as a monstrous failure, vicious in its inhospitality.
—Michael J. Lewis, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
For more than a year after his election in 2018, Salvini was happy to hold the spotlight, taking the credit and the blame for Europe’s inhospitality to migrants.
—Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
Krawcheck’s flameout generated countless pages of commentary about Wall Street’s inhospitality to women.
—Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2019
Family separation at the border and another measure Damus knows first hand, detention of asylum seekers, also point to the current American inhospitality.
—Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 14 July 2019
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Riley Farrell, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2022
The inhospitality of the vaccinated body to SARS-CoV-2 is what’s given many researchers hope that long COVID, too, will be rarer among the immunized, though that connection is still being explored.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021
Here, there are no villains, just the cruel inhospitality of space, dumb luck and the different taxonomies of heroism, decency and sacrifice that the Kingfisher crew members represent.
—Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
What some might see as severity or inhospitality is to its occupant a reminder to live and design deliberately.
—New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
And yet the Mall in Washington is commonly regarded as America’s noblest civic space, while the plaza in Albany is seen as a monstrous failure, vicious in its inhospitality.
—Michael J. Lewis, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
For more than a year after his election in 2018, Salvini was happy to hold the spotlight, taking the credit and the blame for Europe’s inhospitality to migrants.
—Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
Krawcheck’s flameout generated countless pages of commentary about Wall Street’s inhospitality to women.
—Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2019
Family separation at the border and another measure Damus knows first hand, detention of asylum seekers, also point to the current American inhospitality.
—Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 14 July 2019
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