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

At the court of———, there was an Italian, not uncelebrated for his wisdom, nor unbeloved for an innocence and integrity of life rarely indeed to be met with among his countrymen.

From Devereux — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron