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unlovable

British  
/ ʌnˈlʌvəbəl /

adjective

  1. not attracting or deserving love

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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