Crossword-Solution: INHOSPITABLENESS 16 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

The spring has been walled up and a marble spout inserted, which gushes forth a round, crystal column, as though endeavoring to compensate for the prevailing aridness and to apologize to the thirsty wayfarer for the inhospitableness of its surroundings.

Whisky runners were inclined to resent intrusion on their privacy with a touch of that biting inhospitableness which a moonlighter of Kentucky uses toward an inquisitive, unsympathetic marshal.

See In- not, and Hospitality.] Defn: The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality.