as in inexpediency
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Recent Examples of undesirability
The undesirability of the undead state is inherent in the term itself.
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Literary Hub,
5 May 2026
There are hyper-local gags about the Williamsburg bar Union Pool and the undesirability of living in the Financial District, and a creature known as Rat Pizza — like Pizza Rat in reverse.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
While some recent sales have been sluggish — Susan Gutfreund’s 12,000-square-foot duplex listed for $120 million in 2016 and finally sold for $53 million three years later, that seems more a symptom of delusional pricing than undesirability.
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Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub,
5 May 2026
There are hyper-local gags about the Williamsburg bar Union Pool and the undesirability of living in the Financial District, and a creature known as Rat Pizza — like Pizza Rat in reverse.
—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
While some recent sales have been sluggish — Susan Gutfreund’s 12,000-square-foot duplex listed for $120 million in 2016 and finally sold for $53 million three years later, that seems more a symptom of delusional pricing than undesirability.
—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undesirability
- inexpediency
- uselessness
- inapplicability
- irrelevance
- inadequacy
- pointlessness
- meaninglessness
- inadmissibility
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Their book asserts without qualification that those few M.P.s who did speak against the act objected only on grounds of inexpediency and unfairness, and never on the principle of the right.
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The goal isn't to restrict agents into uselessness.
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The fear of uselessness explains why the banker Eric Tao (Ken Leung) leaves a cushy retirement to get back to finance, even at the cost of neglecting his kids.
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Defendants rely on cases that, ironically, only confirm the inapplicability of the § 1252(f)(1) bar here.
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The asylum program continues to be shrunk into irrelevance.
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In an era of AI and rapid change, treating customers as mere constraints is a recipe for irrelevance.
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This majestic sequence delivers a lifetime’s outpouring of love’s inadequacies and frustrations, of grief and regret, of gratitude along with candid acceptance of loss, and of self-questioning that never shakes the foundations of the family—her ferocious commitment to the children.
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That’s a feeling of inadequacy that not only infests Ruben’s mind, but Niall’s as well.
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The battle that follows — a muddy and mean scrum — is even more ghastly, partly for its utter pointlessness.
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Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.
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The game’s meaninglessness didn’t matter to the raucous sellout crowd that packed SoFi Stadium.
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With its absence comes abject horror, meaninglessness, and a total loss of humanity.
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The Ghanaian government statement said it was informed that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) made the decision on grounds of inadmissibility under paragraph A36(1)(c) of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
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Only cash assistance for income maintenance or long-term institutional care is considered when determining public-charge inadmissibility.
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“Undesirability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undesirability. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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