unaffectionate

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unaffectionate

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From un- + affectionate.

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  1. Not affectionate; dispassionate. She was the granddaughter of the German Jewish banking magnate Jacob H. Schiff and was raised by a distant, unaffectionate mother so filled with assimilationist anxiety that she refused to let her daughter attend the debutante balls of other Jewish girls.

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@misc{unaffectionate_2026,
  title = {unaffectionate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unaffectionate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}