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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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
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
In a face softened by comfortable living, the appraising eye is the one conspicuous reminder of Bulganin's unamiable past.
From Time Magazine Archive
To exact from a man that to which you have a right, and which it is his own truest interest to bestow, is neither unchristian nor unamiable.
From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail
