amiable
adjective
having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable.
unamiable
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a word derived from
amiable.
Example Sentences
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Father Urbain Grandier, the center of the disturbance, looked for all the world like "a fleshier, not unamiable and only slightly less intelligent Mephistopheles in clerical fancy dress."
From Time Magazine Archive
He left office with a reputation as the pettish, totally unamiable author of some of the world's most elephantine prose.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a face softened by comfortable living, the appraising eye is the one conspicuous reminder of Bulganin's unamiable past.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their voices while they say so may grate harshly on our ear and suggest to us that they are an unamiable people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each, perhaps, was buoyed up with an obstinate determination to reach the station by 8.15 in spite of the unamiable hopes of the owner of the wood.
From For the School Colours by Angela Brazil
