unenviable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unenviable (comparative more unenviable, superlative most unenviable)
- Difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.
- Valjean was in the unenviable position of either living with the knowledge an innocent would suffer for his crime or revealing his true identity and going back to prison.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277:
- There might be a 'train captain' on board, as on the Docklands Light Railway, but this would be an unenviable role on our packed Tube: the train captain would be condemned to live in a permanent rush hour.
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Translations[edit]
difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant
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