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UK
/ʌnlˈaɪkəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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(of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings
all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic -
difficult or impossible to like
a disagreeable and unlikable old woman
How To Use unlikeable In A Sentence
- A kind of mulish huffiness in his expression made him look ridiculous and unlikeable. The Nursing Home Murder
- And while he did allegedly insist on the rewrites that ensured he got the girl, he was happy to leave his character's unlikeable personality traits.
- She is as loveable as she is unlikeable. Times, Sunday Times
- Also, there's this half-assed ongoing sublot about a few of kids 'parents, whose marriages are all on the rocks because one of them's cheating and the other's a work-a-holic and mommy takes pills and they're all just too self-involved to do much in the way of parenting, which we're supposed to understand is the "real reason" why these kids are such unlikeable jerkfaces, thereby making this whole show a poignant statement about the breakdown of the American family's value system, as opposed to just another moron-exploiting melodrama about awful people leading terrible lives. Alex Blagg: My Review Of The OC Creator's New Show Gossip Girl, Which I Did Not Watch
- It's an accomplished portrayal of ravaged glamour, pitiable but also biliously unlikeable. Times, Sunday Times
- Mr Bradley James as the bratling prince (yes, I know Mr T H White says that Arthur is supposed be brought up ignorant of his royal heritage; clearly the committee are just as ignorant of THEIR heritage) managed to make him a right royal pain without being totally unlikeable. The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant
- Then I hightailed across town to see ‘King of Stains’ at Bats, where Gibby played the most unlikeable character ever, and so well!
- The series mined an area rich in comedy potential but it failed to win over its audience, possibly because, aside from the Hallidays, the remaining characters were genuinely unlikeable.
- The pair are so unlikeable, however, that you want them both to lose. Times, Sunday Times
- A diplomat's son, a photojournalist, a wealthy adventurer, a Peace Corps veteran - these are unlikeable characters, but affecting and recognizably products of a bloated yet dominant America.