unlikeable
Speech parts
1. unlikeable - Adjective
2. unlikeable - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
difficult or impossible to like
(of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings
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Examples
NBC announced this week that they will be producing a 3 hour TV movie based on the life of Rudolph Giuliani. To keep the movie real to life, the Giuliani character is really unlikeable until the last 15 minutes, when everyone loves him.
I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.
You know that's why people don't like unlikeable characters. It's not that they're not interesting. Everybody knows the most interesting character in a book or a movie or whatever narrative is the villain.
I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.
a disagreeable and unlikable old woman