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unenviable
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an unenviable task (= unpleasant or difficult ) ▪ He has the unenviable task of telling hungry people that there is no food. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN job ▪ Mr Sylvester went with her, glad to escape the inevitable ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from un- (1) "not" + enviable (adj.). Related: Unenviably .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envy.
Usage examples of unenviable.
The Rebels were still loosely trapped -- in a manner of speaking-but the punks were now in that unenviable position of riding a tiger: afraid to turn loose and afraid to stay on.
On that same evening Jean was to meet his accomplices at a ball at the Rainbow--a public-house bearing a very unenviable reputation--and give them their last instructions.
I feel like those unfortunate automobilists who achieve an unenviable motoriety by coming to a hopeless stop with their cars in the most crowded thoroughfares.
Having been a lifelong friend of the defendant's, his position was an unenviable and difficult one, and no word of criticism was directed against his assignment of the case to Chief Assistant District Attorney Sullivan.
The Daimler limousine crawled through the congested street in Mongkok, an urban mass that had the unenviable distinction of being the most densely populated city district in the history of mankind.
The Guild Master was in the unenviable position of having to keep as much memory current as possible to manage the intricacies of his position.
With the exception of the Hotel Metropole--of whose night life the average Muscovite is totally unaware--undoubtedly the most alert building in that part of town and at that time of night, the most active, the most pulsatingly alive and the one where the most concentrated work was being done was the building on Dzerzhinsky Square that enjoys an unenviable notoriety under the name of "The Lubyanka", in which the Committee for State Security (otherwise known as the KGB) has centered its activities.
And if today I remind my colleagues and the honorable Board of this platitude, and call upon them to turn their eyes for once to the dangers that threaten us, if I assume for a moment the unenviable and often ludicrous role of prophet, warner, and sermonizer, I do so fully prepared to accept mocking laughter.
The solar system guards had the unenviable task of rounding up such drifting threats of death and sending them into cleansing suns or giving them some other final end.