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
So down the stream Went Daphnis: closed the waters o'er a head Dear to the Nine, of nymphs not unbeloved.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
Stranger," she answered, "whosoe'er thou be; Not unbeloved of heavenly powers, I ween, Thou breath'st the vital air, whom Fate's decree Permits a Tyrian city to have seen.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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