'Why are we Germans so unloved?' the popular Bild Zeitung deman-ded in a banner headline. One reason, it concluded, was precisely because Germans were so confused as well as so quarrelsome.
Soviets remain unloved and still keep a low profile, but they are no longer the enemy interloper.
Produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Mr Jones), this stars Albert Finney as the unloved, dicky-hearted classics teacher of Terence Rattigan's stage play.
"We've made ourselves unloved to the established parties.
The graduate employees, the rank and file and the middle managers spoke with one voice: they felt betrayed, put-upon, unloved and angry.
Humberside is unloved, with people preferring old county names, but more than 70 per cent are satisfied with its services and performance.
Only a few years ago Magma Copper, the second-largest US producer, was unloved and unwanted - spun-off to fend for itself by an uncaring parent, Newmont Mining.