unlikable

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1. unlikable - Adjective

2. unlikable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

difficult or impossible to like

(of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings

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The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds. R. A. Lafferty

For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do... [Lucifer]. Glen Duncan

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. Michael Rooker

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash. Steve Coogan

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with. Adelaide Kane

Without other people's companionship, even paradise would be an unlikable place. Romanian Proverb

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