unlikable
Example Sentences
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The novel’s three principal characters are such an unlikable bunch that their fate—prison or morgue—may not matter much to readers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Past being unlikable, he’s unsympathetic, and worse, for all his noisy behavior, uninteresting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
That Belmondo morphs from appealing photojournalist to unlikable sexual cad while the picture’s ostensible star—Claude Brasseur as an inadvertent cop killer—disappears for long stretches does the picture no favors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
It’s a treat to watch the magnetic Groff trace an unlikable guy to his idealistic origins, Radcliffe’s face soften from judgmental colleague to wide-eyed hopeful and the wonderful Mendez peel back layers of unrequited love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
I went to the living room, said hello to Jean, who was about my age and thoroughly unlikable, and went to my room.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
