as in loathsome
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Recent Examples of unlovable
Love lavishly, including those who are unlovable.
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Annie Lane, oregonlive, 24 June 2020
Similarly, a lack of thought in ‘loving’ gestures can make your affection seem saccharine and forced, making your partner feel small or unlovable.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
The coda is almost always his unmasking, revealing the true, repulsive, unlovable face beneath the mask.
—Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
For Black Americans, who are often already stigmatized as unlovable and undeserving of care, our communities’ lack of expansive intimacy also reproduces the rejection and denial many of us experience in mass society.
—Dr. Jenn Jackson, Essence, 12 Dec. 2022
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Annie Lane, oregonlive, 24 June 2020
Similarly, a lack of thought in ‘loving’ gestures can make your affection seem saccharine and forced, making your partner feel small or unlovable.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
The coda is almost always his unmasking, revealing the true, repulsive, unlovable face beneath the mask.
—Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
For Black Americans, who are often already stigmatized as unlovable and undeserving of care, our communities’ lack of expansive intimacy also reproduces the rejection and denial many of us experience in mass society.
—Dr. Jenn Jackson, Essence, 12 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlovable
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More than a quarter of a century later, Foster will step onto that same field Saturday night needing to prove himself anew against another team wearing the loathsome cardinal and gold.Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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Denzel Washington was gruesomely low down in the dirt as a cop willing to wield his privilege against vulnerable Black and brown communities in 2001’s admittedly loathsome Training Day.Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2024
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To be unclaimed does not in itself mean that a person was unloved in life or unmissed in death.Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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Only Linda’s was interesting, Eliza thought, with its intentional clashes of color; the rest were a random scattering of droopy, unloved plants.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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The Center for Countering Digital Hate recently said that X failed to remove nearly 86% of 300 hateful posts a week after the organization reported them.Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Finally, there’s the late-to-the-party Johnny (Christopher Sears), a free-spirited recovering heroin addict who brings along his fellow 12-stepper Loren (Barbie Ferreira), the outsider and truth-teller whose appalled at the hateful religious vitriol spewed by Diana.Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
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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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As is consistent across American life, the only way to hold a corporation like Spotify accountable for its inequitable distribution model and odious use of A.I. is to deny it access to your wallet and personal data.Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
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By publicly and privately drawing attention to the institution of slavery and those enslaved, especially in Southern cities and plantations, Lafayette was making his position known and trying to hasten the end of the odious practice.Elizabeth M. Reese / Made by History, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
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But that face is all the better to leer at his creator with, and Ito’s Frankenstein does a wonderful job at capturing a man being chased by his own abominable choices.Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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His new home is a notorious federal jail in New York City known for extreme violence and abominable medical care.Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
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The scene was particularly challenging for Hoult, who had to convey with passionate conviction an ideology that is personally abhorrent to him.Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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This is the latest abhorrent act in the regime’s long history of transnational repression and accelerating rate of executions.Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2024
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Almost everyone is bitter, unpleasant, scheming, self-centered, manipulative or awful (or just plain crazy).Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The news, predictably, was unpleasant: the Olympic roster was about to leak, and Clark wasn’t on it.Sean Gregory, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Unlovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlovable. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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