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Definition of unamiable in English: unamiableadjectiveʌnˈeɪmɪəb(ə)l Not having a friendly manner; not pleasant. a fat man with unamiable blue eyes he appears deeply unamiable Example sentencesExamples - What confirmed the liberals in this unamiable habit was their success in keeping Robert Bork off the Supreme Court in 1987.
- We tend to confine moral epithets to those amiable or unamiable qualities which require more cultivation to become habitual, or depend to a greater extent upon the presence or absence of self-discipline.
- For I am temperance written in letters ten foot high; I am sharp and unamiable as the morning's sorrows, whose shadows lie jagged across the smoky evening.
- They branded him ‘degraded, unteachable, unamiable, querulous, and unmanly.’
- In Tacitus's obituary he is an unamiable novus homo (first man of his family to reach the consulship.
Synonyms uncharitable, unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, mean, mean-spirited, cruel, vicious, spiteful, malicious, malevolent, harsh, callous, pitiless, ruthless, unsympathetic, unfeeling, compassionless, uncaring, snide, shabby, hurtful, wounding, upsetting, ill-natured, hard-hearted, heartless, cold-hearted, merciless, brutal, savage, inhuman
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