Jesse, suspended from his job as police chief of Paradise, is a drunken recluse, much to the disgust of his oddly unaffectionate dog. ❋ Unknown (2010)
From the launch of the series, Russell was portrayed as emotionally detached, unaffectionate toward his beautiful, albeit augmented, wife. ❋ Jim Moret (2011)
Women with high levels of oxytocin did not have a positive relationship with a partner; they viewed their husbands as unsupportive or unaffectionate and felt they could not open up to them. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2010)
Increasingly she withdrew from her children, becoming “uncommunicative,” “undemonstrative” and “unaffectionate” toward them in a way that she was not with her animals.111 ❋ Donald Sturrock (2010)
Yet unlike the Oak, cold and unaffectionate to the Ivy, and which leaves it to the Ivy to weave its own affectionate embrace, methinks thee, Yes meknows thee to be unlike to the Quercus for I feel that thy affections reciprocally are twining, too, around my heart while I ❋ Unknown (2008)
He was raised in a harsh, hard-working unaffectionate, farming family, where emotions were never shown. ❋ Madmother (2009)
I have just gone through a depressing dinner date with my boyfriend who really needs more sleep because he's cranky and unaffectionate when he's not sleeping well. ❋ Fantasyecho (2007)
Picking up his clarinet case, Herschel gave the mattress an unaffectionate kick as he passed it on his way out the door. ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)
Indeed, until I started thinking about that interaction with my advisor, it never occurred to me that any reasonable person might interpret my teasing as otherwise than affectionate, but I guess there is something aggressive there: not unplayful or unaffectionate, to be sure, but implicitly about asserting oneself while keeping the other person firmly in his place. ❋ Flavia (2008)
So she and Tanner Colby have assembled "Belushi: A Biography," a just-published collection of affectionate memories of John — and unaffectionate ones of Woodward. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Can they even imagine the frighteningly unaffectionate, if not downright liverish, stare with which people have come to greet each such well-publicized and self-regarding near miss? ❋ Unknown (2008)
While I usually apply that quote tongue in cheek and affectionately to myself, in this case it fits in the most negative, unaffectionate, accusatory, and insightful way directed at Karl Rove. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I do not think a decision like that makes me unaffectionate or distant, just considerate. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Saudi men tend to be unaffectionate, fickle and just plain selfish. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
She pushed her daughter away unaffectionately. The school was unaffectionately nicknamed "[The Academy] of Anxiety and [Gloom]" by some of its students. He refers to his wife unaffectionately as "She who must be [obeyed]." ❋ V6y4 (2023)
