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Unlikable

adjective

(of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings. Synonyms: unappealing, unlikeable, unsympathetic.

Difficult or impossible to like. Synonym: unlikeable.

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"Unlikable" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ferguson, constituted the only tribunal she was willing to recognize. Her consciousness of superiority to the conditions that surrounded her, her love of luxury, the silken selfishness with which she squirmed out of unpleasant duties, these made her an unlikable and undesirable housemate, and that these faults could exist with what Nancy called her "everlasting stained-glass attitude" made it difficult for Mother Carey to maintain a harmonious family circle. It was an outburst of Nancy's impetuous temper that Mrs. Carey ...

— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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... skin to find out what kind of a fellow this neighbor is? Certainly we are self- centered and we wonder that people don't like us when we don't try to find what is likable about them—and keep stressing their unlikable qualities. ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

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Words linked to "Unlikable" : drama, sympathetic, unsympathetic, disliked