1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 274/1 Þis delaye, of which were like to growe unease and unfrendely love betwene me and my said Cousyn.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxxiiii They mette with vnfrendely countenaunce, &..departyd with lytle loue or charyte.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxix The French kyng..knewe by his espials..the vnfrendly departyng of the Duke of Burgoyne.

1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xxxvii Nor have you given me cause to be less your Friend than heretofore; unless it be by this unfriendly jealousie.

1757 S. Foote Author ii. 33 It was, d'ye see, a very unfriendly Thing to make Love to Becky in my Absence.

1834 T. De Quincey S. T. Coleridge in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 510/2 Discoverers who would make a more unfriendly use of the discovery.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. 2/2 We are very much afraid that this would be looked upon by other countries as an ‘unfriendly act’.

1483 Cath. Angl. 142/2 Vn Frendly, inhumanus, inimicus.

1553 R. Ascham Rep. Affaires Germany in Wks. (1904) 127 I am not so vnaduised..nor you so vnfrendly to looke for so much from me.

1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 58 To his very unfrendly frende that procurid y^e edition of his slender and extemporall devises.

a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Llllll3^v/2 Sure some unfriendly Messenger Is imployed betwixt you.

1629 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 358 Our unfriendlie neighbours the Dutch.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 170 The Indians became unfriendly.

1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. 379 They put forward some of their partizans, who were not so notoriously unfriendly to him.

1884 R. W. Church Bacon 18 His unsympathetic and suspicious, but probably not unfriendly relative.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xiv. sig. p.iiii By fortune vnfrendly..Both horse and man fell to grounde sodendly.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xi. 56 No light, no fire, th'vnfriendly elements, Forgot thee vtterly. View more context for this quotation

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 41 The Wind that blows from thence..is always unfriendly to Vegetation.

1784 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 468 It must be supposed to have arisen from some unfriendly mixture in the tin, probably from Arsenic.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 406 It frequently happens that..a coarse, unfriendly, stiff soil, is brought up.

1816 J. Austen Emma I. xvi. 295 The atmosphere in that unsettled state..which is..the most unfriendly for exercise. View more context for this quotation

a1831 R. Whately Logic in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 225/1 Qualities unfriendly to each other are rarely combined.

1978 Forbes 24 July 60/1 The difference between a computer and a calculator..is that the former is unfriendly and the latter is friendly.

1982 Computerworld 8 Mar. 11/4 For many users, the software of the near future will have to be very different and infinitely simpler to execute than today's ‘unfriendly’ IMS-like subsystems.

1989 Boston Globe 23 Jan. 30/5 Chemical reactions take place..transforming..‘friendly’ non-destructive chlorine and bromine into an ‘unfriendly’ radical form that destroys ozone.

1990 Economist 21 Apr. 84 Special teams should begin the operation by the end of April, using 30 tonnes of environmentally unfriendly dynamite.

1981 Economist 16 May 55/1 The winners will be those whose machines do not bristle with difficulty and are ‘user-friendly’. Prestel, with its numerical codes, is, in the view of many, ‘user-unfriendly’.

1986 Hawaii Business Jan. i. 30/2 They and their staffs made the rules and the decisions that led the state into more and more complex laws, most of them business-unfriendly.

1988 Green Line Oct. 5/3 A useful document for anyone campaigning on the ozone issue or wishing to avoid ozone-unfriendly packaging.

1990 Blitz Oct. 69 ‘Take Me Back’ by Nottingham's Rhythmatic..was a bleeping classic with its deranged coda and speaker-unfriendly bass.

1973 E. Arnold Proving Ground iv. 56 A couple of unfriendlies turned up and I had to scoot off... It was absolutely no fun sitting in an unarmed airplane while people who didn't like you took pot shots at you.

1982 ‘S. F. X. Dean’ Such Pretty Toys (1983) x. 146 The old model [missiles] you can buy... Makes a big difference if the friendlies or the unfriendlies get 'em.

1987 Observer 23 Aug. 29/1 Last month, Klesch was all set to launch an ‘unfriendly’, when Gunn revealed his..recommended deal.

1990 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer 2 Jan. a5/4 We violated the sovereign nation's borders with our troops; shot and killed ‘unfriendlies’ as well as that nation's civilians.

OE Genesis 2690 Þu us leanast nu, unfreondlice fremena þancast!

1483 Cath. Angl. 142/2 Vn Frendly,..inhumane, inhumaniter.

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Insequor,..to speake vnfrendly agaynst one.

1553 R. Ascham Rep. Affaires Germany in Wks. (1904) 127 I am not so vnaduised..nor you so vnfrendly to looke for so much from me.

1570 G. Harvey Let.-bk. 3 I delaied thus unfrendly.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature vi. §15 To covet to obtain what is another man's by just means, and with his consent,..has nothing surely that looks unfriendly upon truth, or is blameable, in it.

1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 46 [This] I leave to be determined by the..Wisdom of the Contracting Coopers that undermine one another unfriendly.