unlikedadj.

1560 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodyake of Lyfe i. sig. Ai Not worse vnliked nowe shal I be, yf that thou wilt me blesse.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xv. f. 103 Euphimia hearkned to this vnliked tale.

1625 Bp. J. Hall Honour Maried Clergie (new ed.) i. xxvii, in Wks. I. 749 That more vnliked Epistle which Ignatius wrote to Saint Iohn.

1663 Case Mary Carleton 32 An unliked and unsutable match, which the freedom of my soul most highly abhominated and resented.

1732 Let. Member House of Commons to Friends at Rome 4 What was your Council of Loggerheads doing when you suffered such an unlik'd Monster to come into the World?

1794 P. Parkinson Life Samuel Simkins II. xv. 27 I feel..for the charming creature who is to be sacrificed to such an unliked brute.

1840 R. Bulwer-Lytton Budget of Bubble Family I. xii. 230 The most unliked and unpopular man in London.

1893 Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1892 686 Avoid as much as possible the favorite crops for their food... Where possible, separate wheat fields from corn by planting of potatoes or unliked crops.

1913 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Nov. 566/3 The writer is postulated as the eldest son of a marquess..unmarried, unliked rather than disliked, not very good at anything.

1960 Africa 30 124 In the event of an unjust or unliked decision.

2012 Morning Bull. (Rockhampton, Queensland) (Nexis) 2 May 14 We have the most untrusted government and the most unliked opposition in our short history.