unlikable

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

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

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