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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unwanted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unwanted baby
▪ Unwanted babies were frequently abandoned in the streets.
an unwanted gift
▪ You can take any unwanted gifts to charity shops.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ There is even a bird-enticing mere built especially for them, with islands, and high banks to keep out unwanted humans.
▪ What a gyro does do, however, is to damp out unwanted movements and allow the pilot more time to react.
▪ I blot out unwanted runs, bleeds and blocks with highly textured kitchen roll.
■ NOUN
attention
▪ Both are reluctant to talk about their plans, for fear of attracting unwanted attention from the insurance industry.
▪ Feigning indifference, she scuttled away from all the unwanted attention.
▪ By making themselves obvious to predators they can easily attract unwanted attention.
child
▪ He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children.
guest
▪ But then, she was at home here, not Rachaela's unwanted guest.
▪ Any unwanted guest soon found himself bundled down to one of the lower floors.
▪ Try to stand up and demand that fear leaves your inner being, like an unwanted guest.
▪ My unwanted guest and I spent five long days and evenings together, with the wind and rain beating on the windows.
pregnancy
▪ They could also lead to unwanted pregnancies and venereal disease, both on the increase among young people.
▪ The way to reduce abortion is to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
▪ The stereotype is of stories exclusively concerned with drugs and unwanted pregnancies.
▪ The reason: fewer unwanted pregnancies and thus fewer incomplete abortions.
▪ But remember, there's simply no excuse in this society, in the late twentieth century, for an unwanted pregnancy.
▪ Each year, 200, 000 teens age 17 and younger have children, many from unwanted pregnancies.
▪ As unwanted pregnancies can so easily be avoided by abortion and contraception, why is illegitimacy now so high?
▪ Their general health is better and they do not suffer repeated or unwanted pregnancies as a matter of course.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jones claimed that the President made unwanted sexual advances towards her, in a Little Rock hotel room.
▪ The pill was once expected to limit the number of unwanted pregnancies, but instead the number has soared.
▪ There are several ways that you can remove unwanted hair, including waxing or electrolysis at a salon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But then, she was at home here, not Rachaela's unwanted guest.
▪ Eventually, after three weeks, he stepped in to rescue her from another, unwanted admirer and love blossomed.
▪ Paying a mortgage trader much more than a treasury trader made the treasury trader feel unwanted.
▪ Unplanned, unwanted infants may begin to seem more acceptable at this point.
▪ Whilst some welcome the opportunity of early retirement, others see it as an unwanted imposition on their lives.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unwanted

1690s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of want (v.).

Wiktionary
unwanted

a. not wanted, welcome or acceptable n. One who or that which is not wanted; an undesirable.

WordNet
unwanted
  1. adj. not wanted; not needed; "tried to give away unwanted kittens" [ant: wanted]

  2. without being invited; "an unwanted intrusion"; "uninvited guests" [syn: unasked, uninvited]

  3. interfering; "unwanted shadows distort the picture"; "removed the unwanted vegetation"

Usage examples of "unwanted".

God only knew how much longer, Tara walking out on them, and he, admittedly, too busy lately to give her much of his time, she probably felt completely alone, unwanted and unneeded.

By itself, neither was particularly important or active, but together they reacted with each other atomically to release a tremendous amount of raw heat and comparatively little unwanted radiation.

Then, moving stiffly, Calandra rolled over and got to her feet, her sense that of someone bracing for unwanted but necessary activity.

I closed my eyes and refused to look at the half-ruined school as we drew nearer it, and I tried desperately to build the mental equivalent of a lead shield around my sixth sense, to shut out the unwanted clairvoyant radiations that, instead of water, composed the oncoming destructive wave.

It was better in uninhabited space, where his mind could float free of unwanted, unsought empathetic intrusion.

She had thought the woman strident and hysterical and thoughtless for persisting in her plans for the next day in face of her own faint, barely acquiescent smiles, and a poor, feckless, fashionless housewife for thrusting those unwanted saucepans on the cook.

I would feel uneasy, I suppose, for a time if I killed a man without adequate reason, but I think I would feel uneasy for a whole lifetime if I fathered an unwanted child.

Usually it was the stars who had to ignore unwanted gawking by the public while they were eating, but now a large number of the glitterati were eyeing Jenny and, incidentally, J.

As a guestan unwanted guest at thatshe had been guilty of a breach of basic good manners.

Having persuaded Jane to stay with hiends in Coastown for the night, he was all alone with the problem of being an unwanted only witness.

I call you Imma, and I hug you often, which you must not mind, for while I admire young women a good deal, I am faithful to my good wife, Ivalee, and I shall not bother you with unwanted attentions.

If he permits himself to experience and acknowledge his denied feelings, he reestablishes contact with himself, he makes it possible for unwanted feelings to be discharged, and he unblocks the integrative process by means of which his internal well-being is preserved.

If Jennet wanted to marry Mark, Susanna would wish them well with all her heart, but she would not condone the sort of careless coupling that led to unwanted children and loveless marriages.

Rusty Kerfuffle, doggedly ignoring the trees and flowers and folding chairs and cameras, doggedly ignoring the knowledge that his beloved paperweight was in his pocket, moved toward the podium, dragging the unwanted corpses with him.

He was brave, imaginative, quick-the ideal target for a kidsman, one of those who took in unwanted children and made thieves of them.