Definitions
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- adjective Not
affectionate ;dispassionate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking affection or warm feeling
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jesse, suspended from his job as police chief of Paradise, is a drunken recluse, much to the disgust of his oddly unaffectionate dog.
Tom Selleck, 'Jesse Stone' keep doing what they do best 2010
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From the launch of the series, Russell was portrayed as emotionally detached, unaffectionate toward his beautiful, albeit augmented, wife.
Jim Moret: Are Reality Shows Turning Deadly? Jim Moret 2011
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From the launch of the series, Russell was portrayed as emotionally detached, unaffectionate toward his beautiful, albeit augmented, wife.
Jim Moret: Are Reality Shows Turning Deadly? Jim Moret 2011
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From the launch of the series, Russell was portrayed as emotionally detached, unaffectionate toward his beautiful, albeit augmented, wife.
Jim Moret: Are Reality Shows Turning Deadly? Jim Moret 2011
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From the launch of the series, Russell was portrayed as emotionally detached, unaffectionate toward his beautiful, albeit augmented, wife.
Jim Moret: Are Reality Shows Turning Deadly? Jim Moret 2011
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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.
SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010
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Increasingly she withdrew from her children, becoming “uncommunicative,” “undemonstrative” and “unaffectionate” toward them in a way that she was not with her animals.111
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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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
Letter from Young John Allen to Miss Mary Houston,September 7, 1854 2008
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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.
SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010
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He was raised in a harsh, hard-working unaffectionate, farming family, where emotions were never shown.
I wasn't going to post this as it is so personal. Madmother 2009
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