as in detestable
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Recent Examples of unlikable
The problem is not that Jacob is inherently unlikable.
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Pearson was an unlikable figure, eager to meddle in policymaking and often overbearing.
—W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
There’s probably not much to be done there — Gerrard is deeply unlikable!
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
The eminently unlikable former Dallas Mavericks owner proved a true shark in the 2024 election.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Pearson was an unlikable figure, eager to meddle in policymaking and often overbearing.
—W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
There’s probably not much to be done there — Gerrard is deeply unlikable!
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
The eminently unlikable former Dallas Mavericks owner proved a true shark in the 2024 election.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlikable
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What’s more, a loss at Hell in a Cell could also force McIntyre to become an even more detestable heel in the weeks and months ahead.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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As if being Jewish had become something really murky, vaguely suspect, possibly detestable.Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
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The despicable crime perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023 is still very real to all of us.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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But it can be done, bad or good, sensible or despicable.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Fiona Shaw is so perfectly contemptible throughout those scenes on the sailboat, rendering Angelica so completely self-absorbed and so cruel, that her likely death feels like an immediate relief.Caroline Framke, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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Most Europeans find Donald Trump alien and contemptible and a man unsuited for the U.S. presidency.David Goodart, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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In the cryptocurrency world, rug-pulling is when developers abandon a project after raising assets, leaving people with worthless tokens.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Everyone in the movie struggles to some degree as well and requests to be paid with three or four U.S. dollars at a time, rather than hundreds of thousands of massively inflated, practically worthless Lebanese pounds.Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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He wasn’t stranded on an unworthy roster as a rookie the way Bedard was.Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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While the company, its car dealers, factory workers and white-collar engineers were all urging Congress to back Chrysler, news outlets aired interviews with people who denounced the auto industry and criticized the company as unworthy of a government loan.Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2024
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Is there a more pitiable character in Virgin River than this woman, who was chasing after Jack while pregnant with a villain’s twins for at least a dozen years and now has to deal with the villain and the twins?Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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As pathetic and pitiable as Gloria is, Blethyn runs away with the whole movie.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Yes, the internet facilitates stupid vile behaviours.Art de Roché, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
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But there's a better chance of government acting against a vile status quo than waiting for colleges and universities to change.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Tonally, the show is a total master class, zipping from euphoric highs to stomach-jolting lows without batting an eyelid, and leaving us to unpack why such a deplorable and devastatingly sad contest can also make us, and its participants, feel so incredibly good.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
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Detainees have previously complained about constant violence, deplorable conditions, severe staffing shortages and the frequent smuggling of drugs and other contraband, the Associated Press reported in September.Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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