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Unwelcome   /ənwˈɛlkəm/   Listen
Unwelcome

adjective
1.
Not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure.  "Unwelcome interruptions" , "Unwelcome visitors"
2.
Not welcome.  Synonyms: unwished, unwished-for.



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"Unwelcome" Quotes from Famous Books



... days after his return to Springfield, there was pressed on the attention of the defeated candidate a matter which must have been peculiarly unwelcome at the time, but which was accepted with habitual fortitude. What this matter was is revealed in the ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne
... never thought of more than that?" He asked the question in his calmest and most friendly tone, somewhat deferentially as though fearing lest it should seem tactless and be unwelcome. ...
— The Witch of Prague • F. Marion Crawford
... English schoolmaster to be absent. To read such announcements as "Chinese and Japanese Curious," "Blackwood Furnitures," "Meals at All Day and Night," and "Steam Laundry & Co." provoke a titter in a city where you believe yourself to be an unwelcome visitor. It is obvious that the scholars of China are not reduced to ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
... is the son of Balthazar, the public headsman of the canton!" asked the father of his friend, in the way that one reluctantly assures himself of some half-comprehended and unwelcome truth,—"of Balthazar—of ...
— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper
... through her that I again met Grell," he resumed, speaking more slowly. "She was alone and practically unprotected. She wrote to me that a certain high official had been paying her unwelcome attentions, but I suspected nothing till I one day learned that she had been arrested for a political offence—she, who never knew the meaning of the word politics. I knew what that meant.... At the time I was in straits myself, for fortune had not been kind at the cards. This was in Vienna. ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest


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