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INHOSPITABLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inhospitably mean?
• INHOSPITABLY (adverb)
The adverb INHOSPITABLY has 1 sense:
1. in an inhospitable manner
Familiarity information: INHOSPITABLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an inhospitable manner
Context example:
she was received inhospitably by her new family
Antonym:
hospitably (in a hospitable manner)
Pertainym:
inhospitable (not hospitable)
Context examples
“Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably.”
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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