Example Sentences

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That Belmondo morphs from appealing photojournalist to unlikable sexual cad while the picture’s ostensible star—Claude Brasseur as an inadvertent cop killer—disappears for long stretches does the picture no favors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

These are the flawed, unlikable people that Bong loves to make us hate.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

“I watched this film a million times because I’m thinking: What magic is this, that I can be so involved with this unlikable woman?”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

At a time when antiheroic leads, with the outsize exception of Carroll O’Connor’s Archie Bunker, were a rarity on television comedies, Mr. Coleman’s distinctly unlikable Bill Bittinger on “Buffalo Bill” was an exception.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

In his heart he knew there was something unlikable about Lavinia Lyte.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes