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• a  (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings
• s  difficult or impossible to like

• I was pleasantly surprised that Nicki 'fessed up to her pill use, and again impressed that Chloe Sevigny can find sympathy in what could be an entirely unlikeable, Nellie-Olsen-on .
• I know the show was pretty bad and the character very unlikeable, but there wasn't a shred of Monica in Courteney Cox's Lucy on Damages.
• His opponents say he is unlikeable and unelectable.

• unsympathetic
• unappealing
• unlikable

• sympathetic

News & Articles

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• Fox News Poll: Obama ratings suffer as scandals continue
  President Barack Obama’s job rating remains upside-down -- no big change there.  Yet for the first time in a Fox News poll, more than half of voters find Obama unlikeable. 
  June 25, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Philip Pullman in Aberdeen Press and Journal
  When you read the gospels, you find that Jesus does some unlikeable things. The dislikeable qualities are there,says Pullman.
• Dave Willis in MSNBC
  They're afraid to have characters that are unlikeable,said Willis, who provides the voices of Meatwad and Carl. "Look at 'Friends.' 'Seinfeld,' look at those characters. They were kind of likable in a way. I think Shake is likable but...
• Matt Czuchry in Bangkok Post
  It's fun to keep the audience guessing. Playing both sides of the guy, either likeable or unlikeable, is a challenge. And it reflects real life [in] that no one has only one side; there's always a grey area,said Czuchry.