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Unenviable

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.

    "Valjean was in the unenviable position of either living with the knowledge an innocent would suffer for his crime or revealing his true identity and going back to prison."

Adjective
  1. 1
    so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy wordnet
  2. 2
    hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment wordnet

Etymology

From un- + enviable.

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