unbeloved

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Yet this in turn invites an obvious retort: If word choice is such a minor matter, why does this graceless and unbeloved neologism keep showing up in newspaper headlines and stump speeches?

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021

Please be grown-up enough so that the possibility of seeing photos of this unbeloved marrying another man will not make you come undone.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2014

All-father has betrothed me to an unbeloved man.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

So down the stream Went Daphnis: closed the waters o'er a head Dear to the Nine, of nymphs not unbeloved.

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

Not charitable; not pious; not scrupulous; unloving, unbeloved; a hand to get money, a safe to keep it. 

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis