Example sentences for: unlikable

How can you use “unlikable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Times ' Maureen Dowd urged that Clinton "quit besmirching Paula Jones and settle the case, before people stop seeing him as a likable rogue and start seeing him as an unlikable rogue."

  • Even for a Grisham novel, The Street Lawyer is said to be insubstantial, with "an unlikable hero, a slapdash plot and some truly awful prose" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Grisham's social commentary is called both worthy and heavy-handed: His "depictions of the poor read like something turned in by a cub reporter" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). The book is expected to sell out its 2.8-million-copy first run.

  • I think he'll be unhappier than any of the other real people depicted in the film, including the tobacco-company P.R. man John Scanlon, who is portrayed merely as evil, not unlikable.)

  • Critics find Williams' character surprisingly unlikable, causing some to conclude that the comedian has hit a midcareer slump.

  • This is not because she is particularly unlikable.


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