Magicians sometimes get an unfriendly reception.

Indeed, the poor man was quite upset at so unfriendly a reception from the dog he had himself so carefully and skillfully made.

Niueans insist the islanders' unfriendly reception was simply a robust traditional 'challenge', but the name 'Savage Island' scared off visitors for many years.

SERVICE: Once you get beyond the frantic and unfriendly reception, the service is very professional.

If the Ghosts went uninvited into Cat country, even for what they deemed a good cause, they could expect an unfriendly reception.

The unfriendly reception, however, has not slowed the antitrust commission.

But he was still too startled and bewildered by the unfriendly reception to think of himself.

In France, it met with an unfriendly reception from both supporters and opponents of the regime.

I was more concerned with my emigrants' completing the long march than with any unfriendly reception we might meet in Teohuacan.

That unfriendly reception, clearly calculated to bar the door against potential competitors, still upsets me when I recall it thirty years later.