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Recent Examples of unenviable
At that point, Angels manager Kurt Suzuki was in an unenviable spot.
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Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
An unenviable assignment, even for a team that seems to have it all.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
But at the very least, in the unenviable ask of replacing Harrison Ford, Gosling is an equipped answer.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
And Ellwood was the Jaguars’ most important piece end-to-end, repeatedly slashing to the rim with a team-leading 19 points and assuming the unenviable task of checking Ralston Valley’s top scorer Caiden Braketa.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
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Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
An unenviable assignment, even for a team that seems to have it all.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
But at the very least, in the unenviable ask of replacing Harrison Ford, Gosling is an equipped answer.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
And Ellwood was the Jaguars’ most important piece end-to-end, repeatedly slashing to the rim with a team-leading 19 points and assuming the unenviable task of checking Ralston Valley’s top scorer Caiden Braketa.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unenviable
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All of these routes risk undesirable tax consequences or, perhaps worse, ire from heirs.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2026
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University of Vermont associate professor and historian Lutz Kaelber estimated that roughly 20,000 people in California deemed undesirable were forcibly sterilized until 1964 due to eugenics policies.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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And would that really lower our appalling, outrageous, abominable electric bills?—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
1 Mar. 2026
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With a wild-card playoff berth secured, zero chance to win the AFC East title and the Jets among the most abominable teams of the 21st century, the Bills’ lineup was loaded with backups.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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The horrid image in the news of a column of smoke rising above the city of Tehran — an abyss of darkness against the gray sky — arrests my attention.—
Babak Rahimi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Within six more days a horrid newspaper man learned the story.—
Eric Mandel,
AJC.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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Car launches are generally ghastly events, and this was way down there with the most hideous… and perhaps gave a clue as to why VW struggles to match its huge European sales success in America.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Apr. 2026
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And a joyous family reunion soon turns into a ghastly nightmare.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Apr. 2026
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Right around that time, the Venice Film Festival saw Mamoru Hosoda’s anime epic Scarlet, in which the Danish prince became an ass-kicking Danish princess consigned to a hellish and phantasmagoric underworld.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2026
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Facing Paul Skenes on a tropical island would be a hellish experience.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Unenviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unenviable. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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