as in undesirable
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Recent Examples of unenviable
Salvi’s wife, Kathy, current chair of the statewide GOP, has the unenviable task of trying to rebuild what is a feeble Republican Party in deep-blue Illinois.
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
There’s a rich history of parties creating new jobs when exceptional talent is willing to take them on, but Stefanik already gave up a legitimately powerful position to take on that unenviable task of representing Trump on the global stage.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 27 Mar. 2025
That leader will face the unenviable task of getting Japan’s reform process back on track — just as Trump 2.0 does his worst to the global trade system.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Georgia Tech, on the other hand, has the unenviable task of trying to slow down this offensive juggernaut.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
There’s a rich history of parties creating new jobs when exceptional talent is willing to take them on, but Stefanik already gave up a legitimately powerful position to take on that unenviable task of representing Trump on the global stage.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 27 Mar. 2025
That leader will face the unenviable task of getting Japan’s reform process back on track — just as Trump 2.0 does his worst to the global trade system.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Georgia Tech, on the other hand, has the unenviable task of trying to slow down this offensive juggernaut.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unenviable
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With only three-plus months left to campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz were left in a pretty undesirable position to try to beat an ascendant Donald Trump.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2025
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Confidence is being incredibly comfortable with the fact that good decisions sometimes lead to undesirable outcomes.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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To fund Geneviève’s idea, she’s arranged for cash from an abominable source: Crispin Shamblee (Simon Callow), a fellow dance devotee with a limitless checkbook and zero morals.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Apr. 2025
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The basic problem with some conservatives' embrace of this man is that Andrew Tate is an abominable human being.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Hornets are coming off a horrid 2024-25 season.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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At second base, despite horrid offensive starts to the season from Brett Baty and Luisangel Acuña, the Mets entered Jeff McNeil’s first game back on Friday ranked 10th in the big leagues in wins above replacement at the position.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Over the past three postseasons, Hellebuyck is a flabbergasting 1-9 on the road with a ghastly .838 save percentage and an almost unfathomable 4.98 goals-against average.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Yet, after saving several lives, the survivors begin to die anyway, one by one: also in ghastly fashion, also in freakish, Rube Goldberg machine-like sequences.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
13 May 2025
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In this movie, their most formidable foes are a hellish bunch of beasties disguised as a rival boy band.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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Once on the ground, Venera 8 lived for only 63 minutes, which is about what was expected given Venus’s hellish conditions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 May 2025
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“Unenviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unenviable. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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