unlovingly

unlovingly

English

Etymology

unloving +‎ -ly

Adverb

unlovingly (comparative more unlovingly, superlative most unlovingly)

1. In an unloving manner; without giving love.
   • 1922, Geoffrey Montagu Cookson (transl.), The Seven against Thebes, page 152 in Four Plays of Aeschylus.

     Alack! The alien of the sea,
     Keen iron, fire's own child,
     With bitter blows, unlovingly
     Their quarrel reconciled;