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Recent Examples of unlikable
Stars don’t like to play unlikable characters but Chenoweth had the guts.
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Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2026
Like One World, Thailand and Fiji, Nicaragua had just too many unlikable players.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 May 2026
Mungiu zeroed in on Stan after seeing his performance in I, Tonya as Jeff Gillooly, the deeply unlikable ex-husband to Margot Robbie’s Tonya Harding.
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Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
11 May 2026
Scott has made a career of being unlikable.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unlikable
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2026
Like One World, Thailand and Fiji, Nicaragua had just too many unlikable players.
—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 May 2026
Mungiu zeroed in on Stan after seeing his performance in I, Tonya as Jeff Gillooly, the deeply unlikable ex-husband to Margot Robbie’s Tonya Harding.
—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
11 May 2026
Scott has made a career of being unlikable.
—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unlikable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlikable
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Soon after he was elected, the Half Moon Bay shooting occurred in January 2023, killing eight farmworkers and exposing detestable housing conditions for the county’s immigrant farmworkers.
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No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship.
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On the Approval Matrix, on this particular night, The Bear is smack in the middle of highbrow and lowbrow, and fully on the side of brilliant, with no hints of the despicable.
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Judge calls Heuermann ‘despicable’ As a series of victims’ kin spoke, Heuermann sat with his hands on the defense table, looking straight ahead and lightly tapping his fingers.
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Most people in the anglosphere don’t follow this region, and those who do get their opinions from a small number of people with a contemptible worldview.
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Your death was preventable, unjust, tragic, and contemptible; utterly contemptible.
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Still, Twain squandered his own fortune and Livy’s inheritance on developing Paige’s invention, even as the Mergenthaler Linotype became the industry standard, rendering Paige’s machine worthless.
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Bitcoin is either digital gold or worthless.
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Republican papers painted Cleveland as unworthy of the presidency.
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In casting a figure who could embody an industry, a medium, a bulwark against unworthy encroachers and invaders, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow brought in Burrows as the most believable person possible.
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What could have been just a mimicry of, say, Edward Norton in American History X becomes something distinctly pitiable and unnerving on its own terms, and Gosling chased the heights of this tormented-20-something performance for a long time, up until the next film on our list.
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Such a pitiable figure should pose no threat to the social order.
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Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment.
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That person is referring to heavyweight Josh Hokit, who is facing widespread backlash for making a vile joke about former first lady Michelle Obama after winning his match over Derrick Lewis.
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The children remained mostly confined to a small room in the house, investigators said, under deplorable conditions.
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Hospital reconstruction in Cuba The second phase would focus more on rebuilding hospitals and medical centers on the island, which are in a deplorable state.
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“Unlikable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlikable. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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