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Recent Examples of unlikable
But then the number of unlikable people who slept four hours or so out of twenty-four includes such dubious sorts as Napoleon and Kissinger.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The directors go for an experiential, if more narratively ambiguous artistic ethos that results in an excitingly cinematic trip alongside unlikable people.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
People want to protect their legacy and image, but Better Man has scenes where Robbie is highly unlikable.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
Best known for his role as Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg has a knack for portraying complex, somewhat unlikable characters.
—airmail.news, 2 Nov. 2024
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The directors go for an experiential, if more narratively ambiguous artistic ethos that results in an excitingly cinematic trip alongside unlikable people.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
People want to protect their legacy and image, but Better Man has scenes where Robbie is highly unlikable.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
Best known for his role as Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg has a knack for portraying complex, somewhat unlikable characters.
—airmail.news, 2 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlikable
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Can’t wait for the Stanley Cup window to close on Team Tank, easily the most detestable team in the League.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
The Athletic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The right invented the term Trump Derangement Syndrome to dismiss analysis of Trump’s autocratic tendencies, compulsive lying and generally detestable character as liberal hysteria.—
Michelle Goldberg,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Some segments of the Democratic coalition would find Piker to be edgy, or crass, or even despicable.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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In an America where the masks of the rich and powerful have long been dropped, Posey pulls off a mysterious emotional striptease, revealing the many layers of Victoria — lazy, childlike, despicable, poignant, inimitable.—
Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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At the time, some of LeBron’s critics saw this as contemptible.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Civil-liberties organizations have defended neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan on the basis that, unless there is free speech for the most contemptible members of society, there cannot be free speech for all.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2025
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The best technology in the world is worthless if people don't use it.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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The reporter's insistence on pulling the 4-time major champion's tongue was worthless.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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This is the real sin of this unworthy tax loophole.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
12 Mar. 2025
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At worst, they were considered physically unworthy to weather the terse Antarctic conditions.—
Will McGough,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Visiting the White Lotus’ Thailand hotel to learn new techniques and share her own, Belinda’s arc is less pitiable this season, but her purpose is arguably even more critical.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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No wonder the film nabbed so many Oscar nominations: Academy members are always going to want their cinematic Mexico to be a pitiable hellhole in need of salvation and a reminder to change its errant ways, a trope that goes back to the days of Manifest Destiny.—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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The Oakland Jewish Alliance, a grassroots organization formed in the wake of these vile acts, has reported over 400 incidents of antisemitic graffiti around the Lake Merritt/Lakeshore neighborhoods in a one-year period.—
Mark Cohen,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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Charlie Kirk is a vile bigot, and standing with him on this issue is profoundly disturbing.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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His reporting showed that, in contravention of law, more than 1,000 Black people had been captured, abused, and held in deplorable conditions in the immediate aftermath of the massacre.—
Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Eagles, meanwhile, aim to make their city’s police force grease the light poles for a parade because the fanbase is made up of deplorable animals.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Unlikable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlikable. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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