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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 mannerplay

  Familiarity information: INHOSPITABLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INHOSPITABLY (adverb)


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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