as in loathsome
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Recent Examples of unlovable
And Dakota also made Taylor feel unlovable, so this is Taylor’s way of trying to get that love back.
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Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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
See All Example Sentences for unlovable
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
The president of the United States has lately made the Hall of Fame bids of unlovable ballplayers a side project.
—
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
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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The hard part to imagine about this fit is a Denver fan favorite wearing the loathsome purple and gold of the Lakers.
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Our mammalian brains encode feeling unloved as a threat to survival.
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Abandoned, listless and unloved, Tulare Animal Control assessed her age at approximately 10 years old.
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Social media sites used for hateful comments Pumphrey made threatening posts on the social media platform YouTube and other social media sites, according to the guilty plea.
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Political podcasters such as Tucker Carlson peddle conspiracies and lies, and there seems to be little consequence for hateful rhetoric.
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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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Using the odious term of genocide does nothing to help what’s going on in the Middle East.
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An actually difficult person would ask for a seafood extravaganza and then complain that all there is to eat is … seafood (and that odious food group, vegetables).
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Those who are at the club often seem either disinterested or go into their shells, contributing to an abominable home record at a stadium where opposing teams and fans usually have a great day out.
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And would that really lower our appalling, outrageous, abominable electric bills?
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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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Alas, Ligeti proved to be an extraordinarily difficult collaborator, his manic perfectionism colliding with practical reality and leading to unpleasant scenes.
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The consequences are unpleasant, but can also turn dangerous very quickly as body temperature rises.
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“Unlovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlovable. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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