How to Use unlovable in a Sentence

unlovable

adjective
  • That is a sick thing to tell a woman who already feels unworthy and unlovable.
    — Brooke Obie, The Root, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the researchers are getting a new perspective on the unlovable beasts.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • And anything related to Boston sports is unlovable for most of this country.
    — Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 17 May 2018
  • To them, being fat means being ugly, rejected, unloved, and unlovable.
    — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Michael felt unlovable from an early age—one parent had deserted him and the other physically abused him.
    — Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And Dakota also made Taylor feel unlovable, so this is Taylor’s way of trying to get that love back.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone knew taxis were an unreliable and largely unlovable service.
    — David Malcolm, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The president of the United States has lately made the Hall of Fame bids of unlovable ballplayers a side project.
    — Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The coda is almost always his unmasking, revealing the true, repulsive, unlovable face beneath the mask.
    — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Similarly, a lack of thought in ‘loving’ gestures can make your affection seem saccharine and forced, making your partner feel small or unlovable.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • And fat or thin, nearly all of us have been exposed to pervasive cultural messages that fat people are unlovable, undesirable, and should be neither seen nor heard.
    — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Morrissey connects hardest to the young people who feel like there is something intrinsically and inexorably unlovable about them.
    — Michael Tedder, Esquire, 26 July 2016
  • There’s no doubt which side Rosa Liksom comes down on; she’s given us an unabashed narrator who doesn’t shy from her years as a Nazi, married to an unlovable man.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Gorgeous, smart and talented Sylvie views herself as ugly, unlovable and undeserving of happiness.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
  • Every conversation threatens to turn to food, or even the possibility of being around food, and the very slender Sheila can’t stop thinking of herself as fat and unlovable.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021
  • So a small crowd of a few thousand Sox fans showed up Wednesday on a gorgeous October afternoon to send off one of the most unlovable teams in recent memory.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Her frenzied quest for excellence in work and love, driven by a haunting fear that her essential self was inadequate and unlovable, left Jamison drained and desperate to escape herself.
    — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • While the occasional prodigious use of their sting riles many, the principal reason that wasps came to be viewed as the unlovable relatives of their industrious counterparts, the bees, was the notion that wasps lack a purpose.
    — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • These basic fears include feeling defective, unlovable, worthless, insignificant, stupid, insecure, trapped, deprived, harmed or controlled.
    — Joel M. Rothaizer, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • This will be a core emotion like feeling unworthy, unseen, unlovable, unvalued, inadequate, insignificant, helpless, or rejected.
    — Finnian Kelly, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • Aside from sharing a pair of executive producers, Harry and Jack Williams, both British imports cast their creator-stars as women who’ve been deemed terminally unlovable.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Affection deprivation can trigger negative beliefs about oneself, such as feeling unlovable, unwanted or undeserving of affection.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • For Black Americans, who are often already stigmatized as unlovable and undeserving of care, our communities’ lack of expansive intimacy also reproduces the rejection and denial many of us experience in mass society.
    — Dr. Jenn Jackson, Essence, 12 Dec. 2022

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