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.
—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
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.—
William Hogeland,
The New Republic,
25 Jan. 2021
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The goal isn't to restrict agents into uselessness.—
Ajay Pundhir,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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Defendants rely on cases that, ironically, only confirm the inapplicability of the § 1252(f)(1) bar here.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2025
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This is familiar territory for singular sports figures; think of how, over three seasons of 100 Foot Wave, big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara has opened up about his own vacillation between craving dominance and fearing irrelevance.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
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One win away from ending 16 years of playoff irrelevance.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
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Payton never has feelings of inadequacy or insecurity.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
15 May 2026
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The inadequacy of that shipping rate continues to have daily real-world consequences.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
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Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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The motive behind the trend is rather unclear, but like much of Gen-Z and Generation Alpha culture, the meaning could come from the meaninglessness.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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The irony and meaninglessness of the carnage rankles, especially when Ulysses is presented as such a nice guy who is prone to de-escalation in his day-to-day work.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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Only cash assistance for income maintenance or long-term institutional care is considered when determining public-charge inadmissibility.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Undesirability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undesirability. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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