Meanings of so uninviting in English

The dining-room table, commonly so uninviting, gleamed as for a festival.

Warwick felt himself wondering where the girl might be going in a neighborhood so uninviting.

It looked so uninviting that I felt sure we should find traveling inland more comfortable.

And seeing it so uninviting they sailed southward along the coast, looking for a fairer land.

And lying down in the beds which had seemed so uninviting, the children were wooed to slumber.

But it has never looked so uninviting.

Catching late trains and early trains; missing meals or sitting down to tables where things are so uninviting you cannot eat.

In the present case, moreover, Cornelia, as a last resort, was by no means so uninviting an object as she might have been.

The water we were forced to use was so uninviting that I decided to make another effort to find a supply in this locality.

The soiled bamboos and calabashes looked so uninviting that the doctor was for pushing on to Taloo that night, notwithstanding it was near sunset.

Her rooms are so clean, her servants so well managed, her children so well dressed, her dinners so well cooked; the whole house so uninviting.