unlovable

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Recent Examples of unlovable Affection deprivation can trigger negative beliefs about oneself, such as feeling unlovable, unwanted or undeserving of affection. Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 Michael felt unlovable from an early age—one parent had deserted him and the other physically abused him. Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023 But work remains stubbornly unlovable. Jonathan Malesic, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2021 Love lavishly, including those who are unlovable. Annie Lane, oregonlive, 24 June 2020 See All Example Sentences for unlovable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlovable
Adjective
  • And Trump’s targeting of college campuses for being havens of antisemitism has caused a backlash from liberals who might despise that strain of hatred, but find Trump equally as loathsome.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2025
  • Covino on the other hand plays Paul with a dash of loathsome rich guy energy, that feels like the polar opposite of Carey’s mild nature.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • What happens to a person who is made without love, and left still unloved after the fact?
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Yet there is an impetus for action — especially now there are indications of a revival even in the most unloved of property sectors.
    Ian King, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • YouTube videos posted from an account linked to the shooter show weapons with racist, homophobic, antisemitic and other hateful scrawlings on them.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Tuesday’s alert is the latest in what’s been a string of hateful defacements this summer.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • As stated earlier, there may not be anything more detestable to the Commanders' faithful than former Cowboys.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
  • The film’s shadowy conspirators provide viewers with villains at once detestable and comfortingly familiar.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2020
Adjective
  • Even the sweet, saintly Jimmy Carter, who cancelled a number of the agency’s more odious operations, signed a covert-action order to send weapons to resistance groups after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
    Keith Gessen, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
  • These views are odious and the antithesis of what America stands for.
    Bob Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • The murder of 1,200 people, including 36 children, in a surprise attack by a terrorist group was an abominable crime.
    Alia Brahimi, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
  • So what better time for the abominable long-drive drill?
    Samuel McDowell, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • There is no fan base in hockey more frustrated than Buffalo’s, and rightfully so given the franchise’s abhorrent streak of futility.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But its placement in the series finale only makes the moment that much more abhorrent.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • A couple who had moved into a new apartment a couple of hours earlier got an unpleasant surprise after returning from a celebratory dinner.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
  • There are many financial benefits to property ownership, but that also means bills, repairs, maintenance and a number of other unpleasant surprises.
    Steve Jahnke, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Unlovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlovable. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.

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