unlovable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Kallman—quick-witted, attractive and unabashedly gay—at first made Auden, who felt perpetually unlovable, deliriously happy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Privately, though, she was absorbing the message that her illnesses made her unlovable.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2025
"Toe-curlingly unlovable TV," said The Guardian, while The Telegraph, somewhat cruelly, called the series an "exercise in narcissism".
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
“It did the job but nobody got excited about a really low-performance, unlovable browser.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
He would have found Kreacher, with his snoutlike nose and bloodshot eyes, a distinctly unlovable object even if the elf had not betrayed Sirius to Voldemort.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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