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Disliked in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, he was nevertheless lionised in China for his role in launching what was the honeymoon period in US-China relations.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2023

This is one of the lessons of an absorbing recent addition to the anti-perfectionist self-help subgenre, The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga, published in English last year.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2019

Disliked movies seems to drag down the star’s own sentiment ratings.

From Forbes • Feb. 26, 2012

Disliked in Comparison.—All of this work implies, of course, that the person doing it was close to the soil; in fact, he was in the soil.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph

Disliked when inaugurated, he had attracted bitter enmity among the business men who dominate opinion in New England and the Eastern States.

From Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. by Seymour, Charles