Everyone knew that 'tycoons' were often small, ugly, unamiable men.
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His countenance and his voice must always have been unamiable.
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A manifest heresy, but not new, nor unamiable, nor inexplicable.
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The Vicar received him with his usual, not unamiable indifference.
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This spirit is full of coldness, jealousy, and every unamiable sentiment.
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The unamiable glance of his eyes was on the instant surcharged with suspicion.
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Some were beginning to be cross and unamiable, when Pete's head again appeared.
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Now in this cave dwelt a dragon of enormous size and unamiable character.
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David found that life with his father now was life with an unamiable hornet.
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They are conscious of looking very unamiable, I suppose, and therefore hate to be seen.
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Burning torches and heated irons are sometimes resorted to as aids in subduing unamiable and obstinate animals.
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So, in unamiable mood, I began to rate my charlady about the dust which gives its brown tone to London interiors.
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After he was admitted to the bar in 1844, however, he found a niche arguing cases in local courts, and decided to make the city his permanent home. Knoxville attorney Oliver Perry Temple (1820-1907), a colleague of Maynard, described Maynard as "abrupt and unamiable, and often offensive in his manners, snapping up men without hesitation." This style agitated Maynard's peers, but at the same time gained their respect.
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Emperor Francis I reaffirmed all of Seckendorff's honors, and the diplomat retired to his estate at Meuselwitz in Thuringia. In 1757 the death of his wife, for whom, harsh and unamiable as he was, he had a deep and abiding affection, broke down his already failing health. Frederick the Great directed Prussian hussars to abduct Seckendorff from Meuselwitz in December 1758 during the Seven Years' War. After spending half a year in detention in Magdeburg, he was exchanged for Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau, who had been captured by Austrians at Hochkirch.
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With such unamiable feelings towards his hearers, > the preacher might indeed command their respect, but could never excite > their sympathy. It may be feared that his Sermons were less popular from > another cause, imputable more to the congregation than to the pastor. Swift > spared not the vice of rich or poor; and, disdaining to amuse the > imaginations of his audience with discussion of dark points of divinity, or > warm them by a flow of sentimental devotion, he rushes at once to the point > of moral depravity, and upbraids them with their favourite and predominant > vices in a tone of stern reproof, bordering upon reproach. In short, he > tears the bandages from their wounds, like the hasty surgeon of a crowded > hospital, and applies the incision knife and caustic with salutary, but > rough and untamed severity.
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