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Recent Examples of unlikable
Macfadyen especially allows Guiteau to walk a challenging tightrope, discomfiting and intensely unlikable but never exactly unmoored from reality, never too far gone into easy, inhuman evil.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The first story of this collaborative collection includes two unlikable coworkers.
—Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025
The entire conceit of the story hinges on the prosthetics that Powell dons to transform from disgraced former Oregon Ducks quarterback and overall unlikable person Russ Holliday into the eager and endearing South Georgia hopeful Chad Powers.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Yet the historical resonance falls flat amid the film’s overlong runtime, unlikable characters and shaky accents that most actors stumble in and out of.
—Itzel Luna, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The first story of this collaborative collection includes two unlikable coworkers.
—Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025
The entire conceit of the story hinges on the prosthetics that Powell dons to transform from disgraced former Oregon Ducks quarterback and overall unlikable person Russ Holliday into the eager and endearing South Georgia hopeful Chad Powers.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Yet the historical resonance falls flat amid the film’s overlong runtime, unlikable characters and shaky accents that most actors stumble in and out of.
—Itzel Luna, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlikable
Adjective
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No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
3 Jan. 2026
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Since season 1, Steve has evolved from detestable jock to one of the series’ most beloved and protective figures.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The Department of Justice has launched a full investigation into the despicable incident that took place earlier today at a church in Minnesota.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
20 Jan. 2026
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Some, however, have called for an even harsher punishment for the royal’s despicable actions, including jail time.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Your death was preventable, unjust, tragic, and contemptible; utterly contemptible.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026
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Reuniting with their Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid director George Roy Hill, Newman and Redford play con men out to ruin a contemptible gangster (Robert Shaw), devising an elaborate scam with plenty of twists, turns, contrivances, and double crosses.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
15 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Otherwise, the cease-fire would feel worthless to many Ukrainians, merely giving Russia a chance to prepare for another invasion.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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Life itself being worthless, all things with it, that feed it, are worthless.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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Families were broken apart by church leaders who cast out men deemed unworthy and reassigned their wives and children to others.—
Jacques Billeaud,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Once a government convinces people that some among them are unworthy of rights or empathy, the rest becomes frighteningly easy.—
Andrew Weinstein,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Women who died in childbirth, young men who died in war, infants who died before baptism—these especially pitiable dead were sometimes thought to become terrors whom the living would need to finish off once and for all.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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Early modern people often represented ghosts as sad and pitiable.—
Penelope Geng,
The Conversation,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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How heartbreaking, and how vile, that any adult claiming compassion would seek to imbue a child with that extreme allergy to their own self.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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The Diary again casts its eye far and wide for news, any news, that might distract us all from the vile toxicity emanating from Washington—make that Davos.—
Chop Choppish Shop,
Air Mail,
24 Jan. 2026
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Attorneys for detainees at the Everglades facility have called the conditions deplorable, writing in court documents that rainwater floods their tents and officers go cell-to-cell pressuring detainees to sign voluntary removal orders before they’re allowed to consult their attorneys.—
DAVID FISCHER,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2026
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Slandering a peaceful protester and cheering his murder is deplorable.—
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Unlikable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlikable. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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