unlikable

Example Sentences

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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

These are the flawed, unlikable people that Bong loves to make us hate.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

“It was this book with an unlikable protagonist where you’re like, ‘Oh, man, I kind of hate that I can relate to this character,’” Lucia de la Garza said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024

At a time when antiheroic leads, with the outsize exception of Carroll O’Connor’s Archie Bunker, were a rarity on television comedies, Mr. Coleman’s distinctly unlikable Bill Bittinger on “Buffalo Bill” was an exception.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

His environment had left its unlikable marks on him, but in the antebellum South, I could have found myself at the mercy of someone much worse—could have been descended from someone much worse.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler