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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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
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
The dominant note of that book, as of Antic Hay and Those Barren Leaves which followed it, was one of unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals.
From Time Magazine Archive
He turned out to be an unamiable man carrying a chip on his shoulder.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter was one of William’s unamiable eccentricities, and it annoyed Prudence the more because William at his wisest was never so profound as to be beyond the comprehension of the most ordinary intelligence.
From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young
