UNLIKABLE Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

unlikable

adjective

Definition of unlikable

as in detestable

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Recent Examples of unlikable Stars don’t like to play unlikable characters but Chenoweth had the guts. — 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

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Adjective

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
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.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026

Definition of detestable

Adjective

The fact that Van Hollen publicly and enthusiastically supported Graham Platner, despite all of his despicable activity, is an embarrassment to the entire state of Maryland.

— Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026
Plus, Palmer is a horrible person — in this case, the victim is much more despicable than the thieves.

— Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2026

Definition of despicable

Adjective

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.

— Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2026
Your death was preventable, unjust, tragic, and contemptible; utterly contemptible.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Jan. 2026

Definition of contemptible

Adjective

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.

— Ron Chernow, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
Bitcoin is either digital gold or worthless.

— Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026

Definition of worthless

Adjective

Republican papers painted Cleveland as unworthy of the presidency.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 2026
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

Definition of unworthy

Adjective

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
Such a pitiable figure should pose no threat to the social order.

— Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026

Definition of pitiable

Adjective

Frazier eagerly reposted a vile lie claiming Israelis drop bombs disguised as toys to murder children—originally posted by a UK activist facing terror charges for backing Hamas.

— Staff, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
The congressmen and senators who support this provision should be voted out of office because Section 224 is so vile.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2026

Definition of vile

Adjective

The malnourished children were found living in deplorable conditions in a 12-by-12-foot room.

— WSYX Staff, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2026
Shiite and Sunni Muslims have been killing each other for centuries, and the status of women in some Muslims countries is deplorable.

— Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

Definition of deplorable

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