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Example sentences for "inhospitality"

Lexicographically close words:
inhibitions; inhibitive; inhibitory; inhibits; inhospitable; inhuman; inhumane; inhumanities; inhumanity; inhumanly
  1. This unmannerliness recalled to my recollection the many receptions of this kind to which I have now so often been exposed, and I could not forbear uttering aloud my indignation at the inhospitality of the English.

  2. Inhospitality is the sign that man will not recognise the stranger as his brother.

  3. By the way, a curious example of inhospitality showed itself in this village where I met the Georgian.

  4. Ah well, it matters little, and it serves the Archbishop right for the inhospitality of his gate at Treves, where they know not a useful soldier when they see one.

  5. I will be your hostess, and will endeavour to recompense you for the inhospitality of the castle.

  6. The inhospitality of these Yucatecan towns to the "stranger that is within their gates" really beggars expression.

  7. We regret to tell Your Excellency that during the subsequent months we spent in Yucatan we met with discourtesy, inhospitality and neglect from the officials such as would be impossible here in England if one of your people visited us.

  8. At length the wall of water was higher than the battlements, the angel waved his hand, the waves rushed over the castle and its sleeping inmates, and the O’Donovan inhospitality was punished.

  9. Finding, however, that Peter did not at all contemplate taking vengeance for the inhospitality shown to Gautier sans avoir, the duke wisely permitted his subjects to supply the crusaders with necessaries.

  10. Nevertheless, it is not probable that Alexius dared to carry his inhospitality so far; and one of the historians[156] of the day particularly marks, that the prisoner was treated with every testimony of respect.

  11. He was angry with the hieratic banishment that sent her out to subsist by the roadside for seven days in early spring; angry with the harsh inhospitality of the hills; and angrier that he could not change it all.

  12. He knew without asking that she had been forced to leave the shelter of the Greek's roof, and though his rage threatened to rise up and blind him he was not entirely unaware of the benefit the inhospitality of others had given him.

  13. Here we experienced a degree of inhospitality not met with among the savages.

  14. Whatever may be said derogatory to these people, I can testify that inhospitality is not among the number of their failings.

  15. It is a fact that we never found an Indian of any tribe disposed to treat us with that degree of inhospitality that we experienced in crossing the Alleghany Mountains, in the State of Pennsylvania.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhospitality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chill; coldness; disagreeableness; frost; incompatibility; strain; tension; unfriendliness