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
On many occasions this has a singular and striking effect, but it degenerates into mere empty form and grimace, in cases where the defunct has had the misfortune to live unbeloved and die unlamented.
From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
They spend Much pains upon him,—keep him poor and low And unbeloved; and thus he gives his mind To fill the fateful, the impregnable Child-fold, and sow on earth the seed of stars.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
Not charitable? not pious; not scrupulous; unloving, unbeloved; a hand to get money, a safe to keep it.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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