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单词 unlovable
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Definition of unlovable in English:

unlovable

(also unloveable)
adjective ʌnˈlʌvəb(ə)lˌənˈləvəb(ə)l
  • Not lovable.

    不可爱的;不讨人喜欢的

    a very unlovable child

    真不惹人喜爱的孩子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I didn't want to make him a cliché or unloveable,’ Gowdy says.
    • Were the unloveable critters thrown into bowls of rice deliberately?
    • Edward Herrmann is Hearst, a big and strangely unlovable teddy bear of a man, spying fanatically on his guests and fellow passengers and especially on his beautiful mistress Marion Davies, played by Kirsten Dunst.
    • Maybe I am not so unlovable, because Dan, he loves me, he wants to be with me.'
    • Our unloveable, big loose cannon - Ortland, Ortland!
    • So I put his books up on a high shelf and tried to get on with the unloveable Red Brigade of deconstructivists and post-structuralists I was supposed to identify with now.
    • What perversity would inspire a busy corporate spokesman to lavish devotion on such an inert and - let's face it - steadfastly unlovable personage for more than two decades?
    • All the things I usually hate in TV are here - it's over the top, it's noisy, it's stuffed with unlovable people, everyone's shouting - but the old bile and fire is back.
    • Two decades ago, she explored the psychology of terrorism in The Good Terrorist and, long before Lionel Shriver breached the taboo of a mother struggling with an unlovable son, Lessing explored the topic in The Fifth Child.
    • Yesterday was one of those days when one feels sort of ucky and unloveable.
    • Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all…
    • I spend a lot of my time thinking myself unworthy, unlovable, of little value or use…… and at the same time I find myself not wanting to feel that way at all, because on other levels I know that these things are not true.
    • I am so sick of reading blogs by women who pepper their intelligent, hilarious posts with frequent mentions of how ugly/fat/flat/unwantable/unloveable they are.
    • As a rule, we divide our hearts into different compartments, for lovable, neutral and unlovable people.
    • Maybe I just see myself as unloveable, I don't know.
    • An unedifying gallery of bit-part rogues, including the profoundly unlovable Frankie Fraser, keeps assuring us that Charlie was a gentleman who looked after his old mum, etc etc.
    • Am I so completely unloveable and so horrible a person?
    • Even relationships can be affected, because the person with SAD can become irritable, unloving and unlovable, says charity Mind.
    • When I say wrong with him, I mean, that the problems he had made him bad or unloveable.
    Synonyms
    unlikable, unattractive, disagreeable

Derivatives

  • unlovability

  • noun
    • Schoon's book, by contrast, has a lot of grainy black-and-white photos to show the increasingly tatty state of the cities, and the unlovability of the out-of-town dwellings sold by members of the House-Builders' Federation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He saw that if a woman rejected him, it was because of her fears rather than because of his inadequacy or unlovability.
      • No experience of suffering, of loneliness or of unlovability we may have gone through or may yet go through can ever destroy that capacity.
      • The city then was reeling from a perception of unlive- and unloveability but was fighting back with a massive PR campaign.
      • And sentimentality plays its part; compared to the rote admissions of insecurity and unlovability by showbiz types, there is something rather touching about these pitch gladiators' self-awareness.

Definition of unlovable in US English:

unlovable

(also unloveable)
adjectiveˌənˈləvəb(ə)lˌənˈləvəb(ə)l
  • Not lovable.

    不可爱的;不讨人喜欢的

    a very unlovable child

    真不惹人喜爱的孩子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our unloveable, big loose cannon - Ortland, Ortland!
    • All the things I usually hate in TV are here - it's over the top, it's noisy, it's stuffed with unlovable people, everyone's shouting - but the old bile and fire is back.
    • Edward Herrmann is Hearst, a big and strangely unlovable teddy bear of a man, spying fanatically on his guests and fellow passengers and especially on his beautiful mistress Marion Davies, played by Kirsten Dunst.
    • I am so sick of reading blogs by women who pepper their intelligent, hilarious posts with frequent mentions of how ugly/fat/flat/unwantable/unloveable they are.
    • So I put his books up on a high shelf and tried to get on with the unloveable Red Brigade of deconstructivists and post-structuralists I was supposed to identify with now.
    • I spend a lot of my time thinking myself unworthy, unlovable, of little value or use…… and at the same time I find myself not wanting to feel that way at all, because on other levels I know that these things are not true.
    • Maybe I just see myself as unloveable, I don't know.
    • When I say wrong with him, I mean, that the problems he had made him bad or unloveable.
    • Am I so completely unloveable and so horrible a person?
    • Yesterday was one of those days when one feels sort of ucky and unloveable.
    • As a rule, we divide our hearts into different compartments, for lovable, neutral and unlovable people.
    • Two decades ago, she explored the psychology of terrorism in The Good Terrorist and, long before Lionel Shriver breached the taboo of a mother struggling with an unlovable son, Lessing explored the topic in The Fifth Child.
    • Were the unloveable critters thrown into bowls of rice deliberately?
    • Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all…
    • Even relationships can be affected, because the person with SAD can become irritable, unloving and unlovable, says charity Mind.
    • Maybe I am not so unlovable, because Dan, he loves me, he wants to be with me.'
    • What perversity would inspire a busy corporate spokesman to lavish devotion on such an inert and - let's face it - steadfastly unlovable personage for more than two decades?
    • An unedifying gallery of bit-part rogues, including the profoundly unlovable Frankie Fraser, keeps assuring us that Charlie was a gentleman who looked after his old mum, etc etc.
    • I didn't want to make him a cliché or unloveable,’ Gowdy says.
    Synonyms
    unlikable, unattractive, disagreeable
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