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inhospitably

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in·hos·pi·ta·ble  (n-hsp-t-bl, nh-spt-bl)
adj.
1. Displaying no hospitality; unfriendly.
2. Unfavorable to life or growth; hostile: the barren, inhospitable desert.
in·hospi·ta·ble·ness n.
in·hospi·ta·bly adv.
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Adv.1.inhospitably - in an inhospitable manner; "she was received inhospitably by her new family"
hospitably - in a hospitable manner; "she was received hospitably by her new family"
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For thus inhospitably did this fair earth, our common inheritance, present itself to the mental vision of Mr Verloc.
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I had asked him the question inhospitably enough, for I resented the sort of bright and gratified recognition that still shone in his face.
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But the captain inhospitably kept him perched on the lowest gang-way step, shivering miserably and with his feet dangling in the water, till we, out of very pity, rowed in from the darkness and took him off.
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