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unˈenviable, a. and n.
(un-1 7 b.)
1641Milton Animadv. Pref. 3 Their hopes of ascending above a lowly and unenviable pitch in this life. 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) II. 205 All the unenviables of her situation recurred to her mind. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 143 He now daily proved that he was well entitled to this unenviable reputation. 1885C. E. Pascoe Lond. of To-day 262 The church..which has earned an unenviable notoriety in connection with..Ritualistic practices.
Hence unˈenviably adv.
1854Huxley in Life (1900) I. 47 One of that class unenviably distinguished in the war-time as a ‘donkey frigate’. |