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Unamiable

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not amiable; not likable.

    "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."

Etymology

From un- + amiable. Piecewise doublet of inamiable, inamicable, inimicable, and unamicable.

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