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Recent Examples of unloved
What happens to a person who is made without love, and left still unloved after the fact?
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Drawing inspiration from the late 1990s and early 2000s, founder Vanissa Antonious reimagines once-unloved styles, such as kitten heels and peep toes, through a lens of sensuality and craftsmanship.
—Essence, 25 Aug. 2025
Nothing, Juno and Oliver and David and Rebecca all recognize, is more painful than a child’s fear of going unloved by a parent or a parent’s fear of harming their child.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
Private investors had an edge for a while, playing on the margins of unloved corporate entities and capitalizing on post-2008 regulations that hamstrung bank lending.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Drawing inspiration from the late 1990s and early 2000s, founder Vanissa Antonious reimagines once-unloved styles, such as kitten heels and peep toes, through a lens of sensuality and craftsmanship.
—Essence, 25 Aug. 2025
Nothing, Juno and Oliver and David and Rebecca all recognize, is more painful than a child’s fear of going unloved by a parent or a parent’s fear of harming their child.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
Private investors had an edge for a while, playing on the margins of unloved corporate entities and capitalizing on post-2008 regulations that hamstrung bank lending.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unloved
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Only instead of ignoring or burying this awful truth, Kai travels the world, speaking at synagogues and in Jewish community centers about his family’s dark past — and at high schools and colleges to ensure that the atrocities of Nazi Germany are never forgotten or sanitized.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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Stanford has been awful on the road, losing to Hawaii and getting blown out by BYU and Virginia.—
Harold Gutmann,
Mercury News,
11 Oct. 2025
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Playing a French player at Roland Garros is usually one of the more unpleasant tasks in tennis, given how rowdy the crowd can get when rooting for one of their own on Court Philippe-Chatrier.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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But for all of those unpleasant aspects, the series’ ultimate concentration is on the Marines as a worthy organization devoted to helping mostly young men learn discipline, honor and the proper mechanics for a pull-up.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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His appalling record for Ibis — one goal in eight years and even that one is up for debate — only furthered his cause.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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This is appalling behavior, at best—demonic, at worst.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Employing the term evokes a horrid history of institutional abuse against gay people.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Oct. 2025
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The Tigers won two of three against the Mariners early in the season, then got swept by Seattle at home and were outscored 35-14 during a July series that marked the start of a horrid slide.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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And Chalamet never once came across as grating, obnoxious, or desperate.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2025
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Chelsea, with her ridiculous request for a rug brought from home, may very well be obnoxious.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Chicago ranks 23rd in EPA/play, according to TruMedia, and its most impressive performance has come against a dreadful Cowboys defense.—
Austin Mock,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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To take the lower front air intakes, which were angled toward the centerline of the car—toward the Tri Star emblem—and invert them to toward the tires was a dreadful choice.—
Sean Evans,
Robb Report,
14 Oct. 2025
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This culture is incredibly cruel, and things have gotten really obscene.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Oct. 2025
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In 2009, former Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams was fined $250,000 for making an obscene gesture toward a Buffalo Bills fan.—
Cole Sullivan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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This revolting behavior is not limited to the media.—
Brooke L. Rollins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The many physically revolting and morally repellent acts that ensue amount to little but a gross-out joke.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Unloved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unloved. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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