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Recent Examples of unlikable
Much of The Pitt's success comes courtesy of its ensemble, which includes a motley crew of seasoned residents, insecure medical students, brassy nurses, and unlikable administrators.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
And Seehorn’s performance, basically playing an unlikable jerk, is amazing.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Dec. 2025
Macfadyen especially allows Guiteau to walk a challenging tightrope, discomfiting and intensely unlikable but never exactly unmoored from reality, never too far gone into easy, inhuman evil.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The entire conceit of the story hinges on the prosthetics that Powell dons to transform from disgraced former Oregon Ducks quarterback and overall unlikable person Russ Holliday into the eager and endearing South Georgia hopeful Chad Powers.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
And Seehorn’s performance, basically playing an unlikable jerk, is amazing.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Dec. 2025
Macfadyen especially allows Guiteau to walk a challenging tightrope, discomfiting and intensely unlikable but never exactly unmoored from reality, never too far gone into easy, inhuman evil.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The entire conceit of the story hinges on the prosthetics that Powell dons to transform from disgraced former Oregon Ducks quarterback and overall unlikable person Russ Holliday into the eager and endearing South Georgia hopeful Chad Powers.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlikable
Adjective
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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.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
3 Jan. 2026
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Since season 1, Steve has evolved from detestable jock to one of the series’ most beloved and protective figures.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Where health insurance is concerned, the result is an escalation of the already despicable situation forced on patients by a lack of public insurance option (owing in no small part to commercial insurance giants themselves).—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
2 Apr. 2026
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This is York making a totally clean break from the despicable couple.—
Lauryn Overhultz , Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Apr. 2026
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For a man whose alleged bone spurs kept him out of the Vietnam draft to muse about receiving an award reserved for the bravest of the brave of the American armed forces is contemptible.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The handwash sink next to the three-compartment sink proved worthless without soap, paper towels or a mechanical blower.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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In an economy where wages are anchored to what compute would cost to replicate human work, human labor becomes economically marginal—not worthless, but negligibly small relative to the overall pie.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In postseason play in all sports, millions are watching who have not watched all year and this is the unworthy picture of UConn women’s basketball and its coach they were given.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2026
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The use of childish internet and video-game memes to describe violence is coarse and unworthy of the men and women who go in harm’s way.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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His Max is both vile and charming, and the result is undeniably magnetic.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Apr. 2026
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Slayyyter’s music is vile, explicit, and a threat to common decency.—
Harry Tafoya,
Pitchfork,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Black Chicagoans were relegated to deplorable housing like one room kitchenettes.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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The show is an in-depth, outlandish and witty depiction of some of the world’s most deplorable — and the other folks who happen to get sucked into their manic orbits.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2026
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