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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

Then there is Mrs. Crum, hard-working mother-in-law, whose voice was "an echo of the spirit of '76," a not altogether unamiable creature.

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Mass., the daughter of an unamiable patent attorney who was divorced from his wife when Bette was seven.

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He left office with a reputation as the pettish, totally unamiable author of some of the world's most elephantine prose.

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The death of his wife saddened Borrow, and assisted to transform him into the unamiable creature of Norfolk tradition. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.