What is "unamiable"

Usage examples of "unamiable".

He may be an ugly, ungracious, unamiable person, whose affections may seem merely ludicrous and despicable to you.

Hogarth was rather dull, and Laura Wilson in a particularly unamiable mood, the liveliness of the Australian settler made it pass off very pleasantly.

But I fear that this is an unamiable reflection, and I am at this time in a very amiable mood.

If those which were actually written and sent were to be printed in parallel columns with those mentally formed but not written out responses and comments, the reader would get some idea of the internal conflicts an honest and not unamiable person has to go through, when he finds himself driven to the wall by a correspondence which is draining his vocabulary to find expressions that sound as agreeably, and signify as little, as the phrases used by a diplomatist in closing an official communication.

But Gifted must be looked after, that he should not provoke the unamiable comments of the city youth by any defect or extravagance of costume.

He felt himself to be unamiable, often gross of understanding, always ready to fall into a blunder which other men would avoid.

This is altogether as bitter an enemy to guilt as the former is to innocence: nor can I see it in an unamiable light, even though, through human fallibility, it should be sometimes mistaken.

This unamiable resolve was strengthened by his first impression of Austerby.

Though, in some respects, a very unamiable man, he had, as we have said, his good points.

All this indulgence did not render Owen unamiable, but it made him wilful, and not a happy child.

He was in a mood to cherish warmly the funny, cold little culture that the street represented, the narrow unamiable culture with its taboos against mentioned reality, its elaborate suppression of sex, its insistence on a stoical ability to withstand a monotonous routine of business or drudgery -- and in the midst, performing the necessary rituals to keep dead ideas alive, like a college of witch-doctors in their stern stone tents, powerful, property-owning Hempnell.

On his long and rather large head grew dry black hair and a tawny moustache did not quite cover an unamiable mouth.

I suppose, that my cheeks burned and my hand trembled with some unamiable emotion.

The mixture of amiable simplicity and not unamiable pedantry to which this stroke of nomenclature testifies was further illustrated in his practice of diversifying his sermons to his village flock with Hebrew quotations, which he always commended to their attention as "the immediate language of the Holy Ghost" – a practice which exposed his successor, himself a learned man, to the complaint of his rustic parishioners, that for all his erudition no "immediate language of the Holy Ghost" was ever to be heard from him.

Surely you must see that this pope-holy sanctimonious attitude has a ludicrous as well as a most unamiable side?