as in loathsome
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Recent Examples of unlovable
Love lavishly, including those who are unlovable.
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Annie Lane, oregonlive, 24 June 2020
Similarly, a lack of thought in ‘loving’ gestures can make your affection seem saccharine and forced, making your partner feel small or unlovable.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
The coda is almost always his unmasking, revealing the true, repulsive, unlovable face beneath the mask.
—Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
For Black Americans, who are often already stigmatized as unlovable and undeserving of care, our communities’ lack of expansive intimacy also reproduces the rejection and denial many of us experience in mass society.
—Dr. Jenn Jackson, Essence, 12 Dec. 2022
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Annie Lane, oregonlive, 24 June 2020
Similarly, a lack of thought in ‘loving’ gestures can make your affection seem saccharine and forced, making your partner feel small or unlovable.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
The coda is almost always his unmasking, revealing the true, repulsive, unlovable face beneath the mask.
—Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
For Black Americans, who are often already stigmatized as unlovable and undeserving of care, our communities’ lack of expansive intimacy also reproduces the rejection and denial many of us experience in mass society.
—Dr. Jenn Jackson, Essence, 12 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlovable
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His name has been cursed on the streets of Sacramento, read off a loathsome strip of paper tucked under the windshield wiper: Grant Nakamura.Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 4 Jan. 2025
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Indy’s reverence for art was hardly shared by the Nazis, who in the game are most notably represented by a loathsome archaeologist nemesis called Emmerich Voss.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
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The average size of corporate spinoffs is growing, as CEOs look beyond hiving off unloved divisions and toward more complex, transformative deals.Michael Flaherty, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
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But will this be the unloved and deeply distrusted authority’s last stand?Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
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There’s no legal argument to be made against this turn away from fact-checking and towards a more freewheeling, more disinformation-laden, more confusing, more hateful and less illuminating approach.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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With Zuckerberg’s decision to rescind policies barring hateful speech, he’s made clear that distinction is worth the possibility of political clout come Inauguration Day.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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What’s more, a loss at Hell in a Cell could also force McIntyre to become an even more detestable heel in the weeks and months ahead.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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As if being Jewish had become something really murky, vaguely suspect, possibly detestable.Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
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And Moscow, by now having shed its concern with its international reputation, is likely to become even less constrained in its willingness to aid even the most odious of regimes.Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024
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That closeness is a testament to the skills of case officers, especially considering that spies regularly engage and build rapport with individuals who pose threats to American safety—criminals, terrorists, diplomats from the world’s most odious regimes.Jeremy Hurewitz, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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Essay The Agony and the Ecstasy of the West Edmonton Mall Max Fawcett On learning to love the abominable mix of Soviet brutalism and unrelenting American capitalism around which Edmonton revolves.Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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The clear attempt to further divide our country was abominable.Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 8 Mar. 2024
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Detective Inspector Paul Dalton said offences of this nature are abhorrent and CPIU detectives are committed to protecting children from harm and holding offenders to account.Jon Haworth, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2025
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The upshot for all this is, for the first time ever, neither Russia nor Iran nor Hezbollah could defend this abhorrent regime in Syria.Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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Still, with a budget deficit looming next year and a mayor whose preferred mode of dealing with unpleasant fiscal realities is to hike taxes, revenue grabs like congestion pricing are always on the table.The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
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While a person infected with the virus may experience unpleasant symptoms, others may be asymptomatic and show no symptoms at all.Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Unlovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlovable. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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