as in loathsome
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Recent Examples of unlovable
The president of the United States has lately made the Hall of Fame bids of unlovable ballplayers a side project.
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Jeremy Collins,
The Atlantic,
12 Dec. 2025
This left her children in the painful position of needing parents who had been rendered unlovable.
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Foreign Affairs,
20 Oct. 2025
Lazy and unlovable, Lutz is the butt of far too many jokes, transcending pity and passing into cringe-worthy territory.
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Marc Snetiker,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Oct. 2025
Everyone knew taxis were an unreliable and largely unlovable service.
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David Malcolm,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unlovable
Jeremy Collins,
The Atlantic,
12 Dec. 2025
This left her children in the painful position of needing parents who had been rendered unlovable.
—
Foreign Affairs,
20 Oct. 2025
Lazy and unlovable, Lutz is the butt of far too many jokes, transcending pity and passing into cringe-worthy territory.
—
Marc Snetiker,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Oct. 2025
Everyone knew taxis were an unreliable and largely unlovable service.
—
David Malcolm,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unlovable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlovable
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Platner is loathsome in so many ways.
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Assayas’s aesthetic is too genteel to even imagine the specifics of loathsome doctrines.
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Our mammalian brains encode feeling unloved as a threat to survival.
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Citroën, Opel, Chrysler and DS are a bit like the unloved children that still need to be kept on the books.
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Conservatives are often accused of being divisive, hateful and exclusionary.
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On Sunday, June 14, UFC fighter Josh Hokit took the opportunity after his win on the White House lawn to repeat a hateful lie about the former first lady.
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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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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.
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Using the odious term of genocide does nothing to help what’s going on in the Middle East.
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The film’s most odious villain is Orde Wingate (Robert Aramayo), a British Army captain and Christian Zionist who leads the brutal crackdowns on Palestinian villages.
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And would that really lower our appalling, outrageous, abominable electric bills?
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With a wild-card playoff berth secured, zero chance to win the AFC East title and the Jets among the most abominable teams of the 21st century, the Bills’ lineup was loaded with backups.
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The general idea predated Wilson, but his willingness to use it in service of that abhorrent compromise—subordinating the dignity and equality of individual people to the importance of the American union—showed that his commitment to popular sovereignty had its limits.
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These racist, sexist and abhorrent comments absolutely do not reflect the values of the Massachusetts State Police and are not tolerated within our ranks.
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Fresh grass clippings are great for masking naturally unpleasant odors in the garden by simply using them to cover the offensive materials.
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This could be an indication that the P-trap under the sink has dried out, which means water no longer blocks unpleasant smells from rising.
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“Unlovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlovable. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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