What's the difference between likeable and loveable?

Likeable


Definition:

  • (a.) See Likable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A ceremony will take place at which Jolie will receive the child, who is said to be healthy, likeable, a bit shy and keen on football.
  • (2) "It is not a likeable work," ran one unfavourable review, "containing little humour or tenderness or modesty.
  • (3) Denis Napthine, a former country vet, is like your favourite uncle – a bit of a dag but highly likeable.
  • (4) Sex differences in the perception of touching were investigated by having 25 male and 25 female college students rate how likeable a touch would be under different conditions.
  • (5) And trust and likeability come from being honest, not always from being nice.
  • (6) And that is not easy.” Clinton faced questions about her “likeability” during her failed campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
  • (7) , G2, 21 March), a likeable person with whom I once shared a public platform.
  • (8) No wonder David Cameron wanted to have at his side the man who so successfully enhances his likeability .
  • (9) You might dislike the prime minister's policies – and that's fine – but he and the chancellor are two very likeable and good men, as well as politicians that care deeply about others, and their colleagues know it.
  • (10) "It's all past history as far as the group is concerned," comforts their instantly likeable manager Joe Moss as we wait in a west London recording studio for the Smiths' imminent return from a Thameside photo session.
  • (11) But the need for likeable heroes may instead ensure that the Bushes and Obamas will take the blame – leaving Ronald Reagan up there with George Washington, founding hero of the republic, and with Abraham Lincoln, its saviour.
  • (12) Female characters in books, movies and on TV are meant to be likeable and, as nymag.com points out this week, if they're not, the problem is usually explained away as a medical problem (such as Homeland's Carrie being bipolar.)
  • (13) Three homogeneous and stable factors emerged from a factor analyss: Aggression, Withdrawal and Likeability.
  • (14) If there was a fear before this Olympics began that it would be a corporatised, soulless event, the effort and enthusiasm of the volunteers have filled it with a likeably amateur and properly human warmth.
  • (15) I liked it.” In private Defour is likeable, though he can find privacy difficult.
  • (16) But they also may be tackling broader concerns about the party’s likeability, after the party spent most of this week on the wrong side of public opinion over issues such as the non-domicile tax status .
  • (17) But while the radical increase of women in the workforce has shifted views, we're still not living in a society that sees women and men as equally competent, likeable and authoritative.
  • (18) As we know, this manifesto for women in the boardroom tells us that the correlation between women being judged 'likeable' and their position in a hierarchy are inversely proportionate.
  • (19) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (20) I am not so very old, but I'm old enough to have noticed that the times in my life when I was most admired by men, the times when I was considered most likeable, were also the times when I was most vulnerable, most powerless and unsure of myself.

Loveable


Definition:

  • (a.) See Lovable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more West Ham, who also saw a £31m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette rejected this week, are now expected to return with an improved offer for both players.
  • (2) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
  • (3) Otherwise we'd be stuck with guys like Rick Santorum or Dennis Kucinich, who were more ugly caricatures than loveable, sexy goofballs.
  • (4) Asked how the country perceived him, he spelled out "loveable rogue".
  • (5) He’s a gay actor who has made a career of playing loveable straight blokes and now he’s playing a confusingly straight gay guy who may be a bit of a dick.
  • (6) During those years, Cosby was starring in The Cosby Show as Cliff Huxtable, a loveable but silly family patriarch.
  • (7) He was a loveable revolutionary, with a taste for gentle self-mockery, even of his most serious beliefs - certainly one of Arnold Bennett's natural "cards".
  • (8) Ronnie Biggs said he would be remembered as Britain's "loveable rogue" as he made an appearance in public.
  • (9) Han Solo's swashbuckling loveable rogue of a nephew?
  • (10) It's that optimism that makes Kevin and Perry loveable."
  • (11) At one point in this first volume, Twain observes that man is loving and loveable to his own, but "otherwise the buzzing, busy, trivial enemy of his race – who tarries his little day, does his little dirt, commends himself to God, and then goes out into the darkness, to return no more, and send no messages back – selfish even in death".
  • (12) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more The Tottenham Hotspur forward netted 25 goals, to end the campaign one ahead of Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero and Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy.
  • (13) Meanwhile, Woody Allen continues to make movies, Bill Murray is a loveable but curmudgeonly old fella’ and Terry Richardson is a feted photographer.
  • (14) "Normally enjoy his punditry but come on, this Atletico team are far more loveable than Chelsea have ever been.
  • (15) What everyone should remember about the loveable Mr Schäuble is that he is a humble lawyer and politician who is obsessed by the German obsession with hyper-inflation.
  • (16) You have to make where you live loveable.” Rehman said Cameron has replied to his latest invitation, but this time to say his diary was full and “he will try to visit when there is a free spot”.
  • (17) But wanting the impossible may even support a deep sense of unworthiness ("If I were more loveable, she would be with me.")
  • (18) Naughty Dog, creator of the much-loved Uncharted series, and Media Molecule, the clever Guildford team behind the loveable LittleBigPlanet titles, are both working on major projects that will certainly show what next-gen consoles are capable of.
  • (19) For decades he has been hailed as the archetype of the Hollywood loveable rogue, but it turns out Star Wars’ Han Solo might be more of a scoundrel than even the most die-hard fans of the long-running space opera ever suspected.
  • (20) There's a whole generation of us who secretly think, wouldn't it be nice if the Beatles had not taken any drugs and were still loveable people in a Dick Lester film."

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