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Dis-, forming "disliked" is more idomatic. Strangely, to do the same thing to "loved" you use the prefix un-, forming "unloved". "Disliked" as an adjective is quite rare and unusual, but "unliked" is not used, possibly because it sounds like "unlike"

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