: one that is undesirable
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Adjective
The drug has some undesirable side effects.
This may have undesirable consequences.
Frankly, it's an undesirable and unpleasant job.
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Simmone Shah, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Native to Brazil and other South American and Central American countries, colorful peacock bass were stocked in South Florida canals in the mid-1980s by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to control the population of undesirable exotics like tilapia.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
Among this fast-growing class of undesirables was Loktev’s friend Anna Nemzer, a talk-show host for TV Rain (and a co-director on the film).
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
This includes dry air moving in from the Sahara that helped dry out the atmosphere, and a high pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico that made conditions undesirable for forming hurricanes.
—Simmone Shah, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Native to Brazil and other South American and Central American countries, colorful peacock bass were stocked in South Florida canals in the mid-1980s by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to control the population of undesirable exotics like tilapia.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
Journalists and outlets reporting actual news were officially labeled foreign agents or undesirables, with that designation required to scroll under their television and online content.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
Among this fast-growing class of undesirables was Loktev’s friend Anna Nemzer, a talk-show host for TV Rain (and a co-director on the film).
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Undesirable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undesirable. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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