unenviable

Speech parts

1. unenviable - Adjective

2. unenviable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy

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Examples

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. Felix Adler

If we delight in gossip, and are not content unless each neighbor is laid upon the dissecting table, we form a character unenviable indeed, and must be willing to bear the contempt of all the truly good, while we roll our bit of scandal as a sweet morsel under the tongue. William Jennings Bryan

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. Rene Balcer

[on the Gulf War] I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops. Bill Hicks

Life envy-free is life unenviable. Aeschylus

awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion Source: Internet

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