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Example sentences from the Web for unenviableHer position is unenviable: she is saddled with a memorable debut TV role and then a memorable, failed marriage. How Can Katie Holmes Escape Tom Cruise—and ‘Dawson’s Creek’?|Tim Teeman|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST For the last several years, Geithner has occupied perhaps the most unenviable position in Washington. On the Fiscal Cliff, Republicans Got Nothin’|Daniel Gross|December 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST In the weeks that followed, Semenya made headlines around the world—under some of the most unenviable circumstances imaginable. Caster Semenya And The IOC’s Olympics Gender Bender|Jesse Ellison|July 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST As authorities sort out the investigation, SuperJet faces the unenviable task of pulling a successful program from the wreckage. Russia’s SuperJet Crash in Indonesia Raises Questions of Cause|Elyse Moody|May 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Bernanke is in the unenviable position of trying to run an organization where ideally, he wants consensus. This is Why the Federal Reserve Can't Save the Economy|Noah Kristula-Green|April 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST The only limit to this unenviable popularity was the size of the house. The Desert and The Sown|Mary Hallock Foote The daily life of those unfortunates whose duties took them there, or compelled them to navigate, was unenviable in the extreme. British Secret Service During the Great War|Nicholas Everitt Meantime his position as Joanna's lover was not an unenviable one. Joanna Godden|Sheila Kaye-Smith In the most unenviable of moods, 'Lina left at a comparatively early hour. Bad Hugh|Mary Jane Holmes However this may be, they cannot claim a monopoly to this unenviable distinction. The Sanitary Evolution of London|Henry Lorenzo Jephson
adjectivenot to be enviedthe unenviable task Words nearby unenviableunenforced, un-English, unenlightened, unentered, unenthusiastic, unenviable, unequal, unequaled, unequalled, unequipped, unequitable Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |