unlikable
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The novel’s three principal characters are such an unlikable bunch that their fate—prison or morgue—may not matter much to readers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Linda is hostile, defensive and quite unlikable in many ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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
That said, Aurienne does toe the line between aloof and arrogantly unlikable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
His environment had left its unlikable marks on him, but in the antebellum South, I could have found myself at the mercy of someone much worse—could have been descended from someone much worse.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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