"best liked" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or thing that is the most liked or popular of a group. For example: "Paul was the best liked student in his class."
The findings identify the streetscape design characteristics that were best liked by people as well as those that were disliked.
The Americans have probably been the best liked because they introduced Coca-Cola.
His best liked servant, Johnson, took ill and was sent to the hospital.
One of the most affable and best liked stars in Hollywood, Forsythe was generally cast as decent, upstanding men.
He tells us that David Souter's "gentle charm" probably made him "the best liked of the justices among his peers".
His foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, is Germany's best liked politician, followed by the chancellor, the finance minister and then Mrs Merkel.So what can she do?
Investors have been averse to the Group's M&A activity in our view as it does not conform to the predictable pattern best-liked by retail-followers.
On the other hand, the three hopefuls from the Democratic Party, best-liked by the "masses", failed even to get the ten nominations required to be considered for selection.
Viewers and computer users gave their highest and lowest marks to a couple dozen commercials — and, in some instances, one poll's best-liked or most effective spot was another's most disliked or least effective.
Mr. Lieberman's intent to seek a third term scared away all of the best-known, best-liked potential Republican Senate candidates, leaving the field to Philip Giordano, the mayor of Waterbury, who lacks money and name recognition.
The question underlying all artistic prize ceremonies is whether the aim is to honour the best, in as much as that quality can be quantified, or the best-liked.
