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

Useless, ungainly unbeloved, unblest, Virtue's vague visor, vice's veiling vest, Wheezingly whimpering, wanting wisdom, wit, Xistence, Xigent, Xclaims—Xit!

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

Yet he is as one that dies while he lives; though not altogether as one unbeloved by divine beings.

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

For I know your chaste virtue; I know that, although chained to an unbeloved husband, you never would prove faithless to him and avow love to another so long as you were not free.

From Louisa of Prussia and Her Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)