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Meanings of unaffectionate in English

Lacking affection or warm feeling.

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Examples for "detached"
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They converted the fine detached Victorian house back to a family home.
The Irish Times
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The gunslinger thought in a detached way that light was pretty good.
The gunslinger
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Its detached houses go for an average price of 5 million baht.
Reuters
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Those detached from the top level, however, tend to be more critical.
The Guardian
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The price reflects the demand for detached private houses in this area.
The Irish Times
1
The frigate captain: dashing, uncaring, not tied to the fleet's apron strings.
Man of War
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We aren't simply the pawns of some uncaring force in the universe.
A ticket to the circus: a memoir
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The duke gestured to one, uncaring that Kesseley was soaked and muddy.
Rakes and radishes
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He did the business as an uncaring pop star in Tamara Drewe.
The Irish Times
5
Without God, the universe can only be a machine... unthinking, uncaring, unfeeling.
The Hyperion Cantos
Usage of unaffectionate in English
1
Ines is like a sphinx cat -all uptight and unaffectionate.
News.com.au
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How different this unaffectionate "love" from the love of which our poets sing!
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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Rosamond was not unaffectionate, and not ungrateful; but she inherited much of her father's commonness and frivolity of character.
After Dark
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Now let us go into the other room and see Annie; otherwise Roswitha will accuse me of being an unaffectionate father.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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What tears, secret but deep, bitter but unreproaching, have I retired to shed, when I caught her cold and unaffectionate glance!
Devereux — Volume 01
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Although highly intelligent creatures, monitor lizards are notoriously unaffectionate (at least toward our species), and more than a little temperamental when it comes to handling.
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Unaffectionate through the time