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Recent Examples of unlikable
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.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 11 May 2026
Scott has made a career of being unlikable.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Many of world literature’s most unlikable protagonists start unlikeable and end unlikeable.
—Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
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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.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 11 May 2026
Scott has made a career of being unlikable.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Many of world literature’s most unlikable protagonists start unlikeable and end unlikeable.
—Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
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Surrounded by luminaries like Timothy Spall, Leslie Manville, Ruth Sheen, and a very young (and marvelous) Sally Hawkins, Corden held his own in that film: Rory is one of those characters Leigh so often specializes in, a person at times detestable but also heartbreakingly human.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
9 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Philip Marcelo,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
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Among the other fan favorites who would make for exciting returns on the new show are Amaury Nolasco as Michael's loyal cellmate Fernando Sucre, William Fichtner as former FBI agent Alexander Mahone, and Robert Knepper as the despicable predator T-Bag.—
Derek Lawrence,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 June 2026
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Predictions: Jamie Bell, Charlie Hunnam, Oscar Isaac, Matthew Macfadyen, Matthew Rhys A loaded category is headlined by Carey Mulligan’s fierce, contemptible, often hilarious performance as Oscar Isaac’s fed-up wife in Beef.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
2 May 2026
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The habits that sustain this treaty and this climate are precisely those that radicals on all sides find contemptible: compromise, procedural fidelity, the refusal to go for broke.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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If Iran can still open and shut the Strait at will or charge fees on it, does that mean this agreement is worthless?—
NBC news,
NBC news,
21 June 2026
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That is compliance, and compliance is worthless in a transformation.—
Julie Averill,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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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.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
19 June 2026
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Complaints that the host stadiums, places like Los Angeles Stadium, Boston Stadium or Seattle Stadium would somehow prove unworthy of hosting World Cup matches.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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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.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Such a pitiable figure should pose no threat to the social order.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 June 2026
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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.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
15 June 2026
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Several detainees have reportedly been on a hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions in these deplorable warehouse camps, with overcrowding, physical and psychological abuse, rancid food, scant medical care and many deaths.—
Nancy Rudner,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 June 2026
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Over 60 dogs and cats were rescued after they were found living in deplorable conditions in Fayette County, police say.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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“Unlikable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlikable. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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