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Meanings of unappealing in inglês

(Of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings.

Not able to attract favorable attention.

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Examples for "unsympathetic"
Examples for "unsympathetic"
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Media risked alienating and angering the unsympathetic public by covering the case.
Radio NZ
2
The colonel in command was inclined to be suspicious and sternly unsympathetic.
Memories / A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During ...
3
My parents were unaccountably unsympathetic; they absolutely refused to provide the shilling.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
4
He confided as much in an aggrieved whisper to the unsympathetic Ginger.
No Man's Land
5
The students were enthusiastic, but the authorities of the university sternly unsympathetic.
Hero Tales of the Far North
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Then Paltrow compounds the erratic storytelling by making every character thoroughly unlikable.
Reuters
2
Mostly due to my boss, who made a boring job completely unlikable.
Gentlemen prefer succubi
3
She's conflicted, to say the least, and might have been an unlikable character.
Reuters
4
But the unlikable character showed a sharpness that made her tolerable.
The Guardian
5
The crucial problem here is the thoroughly unlikable nature of its two central characters.
Reuters
1
I am curious to hear your thoughts on creating likeable or unlikeable characters.
Radio NZ
2
Nor can anyone humanise an unlikeable character as well as Thompson.
News.com.au
3
His two smartass sidekicks are unlikeable at best, a plain nuisance at worst.
Reuters
4
Both characters can be haughty and a little bit unlikeable.
Reuters
5
There's been a trend popping up recently, at least in my life, of unlikeable characters.
The Irish Times
Usage of unappealing in inglês
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Brin suggested that the way people today use their smartphones was unappealing.
The Guardian
2
Being away from you for months at a time is highly unappealing.
Bulletproof bride
3
The CMA has not blocked the deal, but it now looks unappealing.
Reuters
4
The solids do look unappealing, and we prefer to leave them out.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
5
It will be stripped of its illu­sions and will be utterly unappealing.
Heaven
6
He finds it all unappealing and rushes back to his TV screen.
The new yorker
7
And the levels of pay offered in the services sector are frequently unappealing.
The Irish Times
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I wanted to find his words or manner unappealing, but they were winsome.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Today, the identikit wedding with the rigid dress code feels passé and unappealing.
The Guardian
10
Life without Kane, of course, had been distinctly unappealing back in the autumn.
The Guardian
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THE Oncology Ward in University College Hospital, Galway, is a miserably unappealing place.
The Irish Times
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None of this makes the story interesting, because the characters are so unappealing.
The Guardian
13
Both paths seemed equally unappealing and equally fraught with peril now.
Beautiful assassin
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Strangely for her, loud music seemed unappealing, and conversation felt futile.
Radiant Shadows
15
They stopped when the tunnel split into three equally dark and unappealing branches.
The bone palace
16
A nurse talks the sick woman through various unappealing palliative measures.
The Irish Times
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United States of America
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