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Shabby hotel is unfriendly (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hostile

'unfriendly' is the definition.
(I know that unfriendly can be written as hostile)

'shabby hotel is' is the wordplay.
'shabby' is an anagram indicator.
'hotel'+'is'='hotelis'
'hotelis' with letters rearranged gives 'HOSTILE'.

(Other definitions for hostile that I've seen before include "malevolent" , "The soil strangely is unfriendly" , "Bellicose" , "Enemy" , "Belligerent" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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