Georges Simenon was not, by most accounts, including his own, a particularly likable man.

None of these three people are particularly likable, but they all seem worthy of sympathy, in part because they remain capable of showing it.

I guess I haven't been feeling particularly likable lately.

The problem, of course, is that most New Yorkers already know the Mayor is a bully and not particularly likable.

He is less successful with his two main characters, who, like the hero of his last novel, "Seaward," are not particularly likable or compelling.

Sir Vivian admired the Queen's strength of character, even if the character wasn't a particularly likable one.

Certainly neither emerges as a particularly likable individual.

Perhaps for that reason, the former President makes a far less colorful figure than the uneven, abnormal, irregular and not particularly likable MacArthur.

Like "Money," it chronicles the spectacular fall of a not particularly likable hero.

Given his own role in the story, Christian hardly strikes us as a reliable - or particularly likable -narrator.