unlovingly

English

Etymology

unloving +‎ -ly

Adverb

unlovingly (comparative more unlovingly, superlative most unlovingly)

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

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