dislikable

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The participants were then asked to recontextualize the stimulus by generating new kinds of thoughts about an image to make it less aversive, before a neutral image was presented followed by another dislikable image.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024

And specifically there's this idea, and I saw it in a couple of headlines, that she was referred to as dislikable.

From Salon • May 1, 2022

It can only make the play either interesting or, if you dislike it… dislikable… but still.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2017

The characters are spiky and complex, having likable and dislikable qualities but always a zone of unknowability, in the way that real people do.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2016

“This,” said the bee with complete disdain, “is the Humbug. A very dislikable fellow.”

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster