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
You can’t have your romantic female lead be totally unlikable, people aren’t going to go.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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
That said, Aurienne does toe the line between aloof and arrogantly unlikable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
In his heart he knew there was something unlikable about Lavinia Lyte.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
