Unamiable

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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.

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