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Unlovable

adjective
1.
Incapable of inspiring love or affection.






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"Unlovable" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wherever there was deviltry, there was Bill Jones, profane and obscene beyond description, but irresistibly comical. He was as lean and muscular as John Falstaff was short and fat, but the divergences between the genial old reprobate of Eastcheap and the saturnine, but by no means unlovable, rapscallion of Medora were less striking than the qualities they had in common. He had good friends, none better than the gay, infinitely pathetic patrician's son, Van Zander, who played Prince Hal to him, light-heartedly flipping ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn

... authority. How could one have expected her to throw off the unholy prestige of that long domination? She could not help believing what she had been told; that she was in some mysterious way odious and unlovable. It was cruelly true—to her. The oracle of so many years had spoken finally. Only other people did not find her out at once.—I would not go so far as to say she believed it altogether. That would be hardly ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... suffering ones is added to the love of the heart for family and kindred. In this work is found something of real "fellowship with God," and we are enabled to understand something of His great love, even for the unlovable, and to rejoice as in the "presence of the angels of God," over His ...
— Why and how: a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada • Addie Chisholm



Words linked to "Unlovable" :   hateful



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