unamiable

comparative more unamiable · superlative most unamiable

1. Not amiable; not likable.

   Burning torches and heated irons are sometimes resorted to as aids in subduing unamiable and obstinate animals.

   1876, Golden Hours: A Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume 8, page 208

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   A daguerreotype likeness, do you mean? […] I don’t much like pictures of that sort—they are so hard and stern; besides dodging away from the eye, and trying to escape altogether. They are conscious of looking very unamiable, I suppose, and therefore hate to be seen.

   1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Maule’s Well”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 101

   Synonyms: inamiable