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Michelle has always been a strong, active and vocal woman, to see her striking a bland pose of indifference and aloofness, not to mention the unlikeness of her facial features made the painting failed spectacularly.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2018

The unlikeness of this match was perhaps what compelled us to take it on.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2011

Hence its unlikeness to New York painting in the '60s, to that clamor of nonnegotiable demands on the viewer's eye and sense of history.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We will begin our study with the unlikeness of men," he says.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Forms of Larva.—The unlikeness of the young insect to its parent is one of the factors that necessitates metamorphosis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various