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

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

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

On many occasions this has a singular and striking effect, but it degenerates into mere empty form and grimace, in cases where the defunct has had the misfortune to live unbeloved and die unlamented.

From Guy Mannering by Scott, Walter, Sir