unbeloved

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Yet this in turn invites an obvious retort: If word choice is such a minor matter, why does this graceless and unbeloved neologism keep showing up in newspaper headlines and stump speeches?

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021

Please be grown-up enough so that the possibility of seeing photos of this unbeloved marrying another man will not make you come undone.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2014

There was the sarcastic observer on the folly of the rest; in that, the greatest fool of all, unbeloved and unloving.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

The next day I scrambled down the rope ladder, and bade farewell to the Bonadventure, that “dirty ship,” not unbeloved; and Mead came next.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

They spend Much pains upon him,—keep him poor and low And unbeloved; and thus he gives his mind To fill the fateful, the impregnable Child-fold, and sow on earth the seed of stars.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean