unendearingadj.

1753 Nerone drama per musica i. vi. 14 The tyrant Nero, Alass! pursues with sacrilegious love This unendearing, this distressful form [It. Neron di queste mie Miserabili forme Sacrilego amatore].

1837 Cleveland (Ohio) Observer 30 Nov. The kindred ties of brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin and even parent and child, if known at all, would be considered as unimportant and unendearing.

1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 49 The eyes..were now peering vacantly..over a trim but unendearing moustache at the crumbs on his empty plate.

2014 Southland Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 8 Self-righteousness is a very unendearing characteristic.

1944 Good Housek. Feb. 118/2 She looked as she always looked at the end of an evening—disheveled, depleted, unendearingly pathetic.

1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Late City Final ed.) c1/3 Cliftonville fans have their own name for this part-time brigade, unendearingly referring to them as ‘The Windsor Reds’.

2013 Sunday Life (Nexis) 3 Nov. (Sport section) 75 An utterly commercial-looking pie tasted fresh and sprightly while an endearingly lumpy pie tasted unendearingly bad.