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unamiable /ʌnˈeɪmɪəb(ə)l /adjectiveNot having a friendly manner; not pleasant: a fat man with unamiable blue eyes he appears deeply unamiable...- 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.
- In Tacitus's obituary he is an unamiable novus homo (first man of his family to reach the consulship.
- 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.
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