Unwelcome

Examples

• St. Clare was at last willing to call in medical advice,--a thing from which he had always shrunk, because it was the admission of an unwelcome truth. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I never remember feeling the presence of the lawyer to be more unwelcome than I felt it at that moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• That very evening brought your most unwelcome uncle. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Archer withdrew reluctantly with the unwelcome documents. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I hope I am not unwelcome in calling to see you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Malone's coming and company were, it may be, most unwelcome to him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You certainly do, she replied with a smile; but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The conviction of his determination once admitted, it was not unwelcome. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Very well, then, said I, to whom this was a new and not unwelcome light, I have never left off adoring her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And a dreaded day it was on his part, and a very unwelcome day when it came and they went down to Hampton Court together. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But unwelcome as such a task must be, it was necessary to be done, and Elinor therefore hastened to perform it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Such a development of every thing most unwelcome! Jane Austen. Emma.
• I have a place to repair to, which will be a secure sanctuary from hateful reminiscences, from unwelcome intrusion--even from falsehood and slander. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As Jane permitted herself to harbor these thoughts, others equally unwelcome forced themselves upon her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• After some hours of fruitless search, they arrived at the unwelcome conclusion that they must go home without him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Editor: Woodrow