Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as not to be enviable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
unenviable way.
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Examples
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Congress faces unenviably tough budget decisions this year, but funding for these programs is not a close call.
Joanne Carter: Cuts That Kill: The Senate Must Restore Global Health Funding Joanne Carter 2011
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Congress faces unenviably tough budget decisions this year, but funding for these programs is not a close call.
Joanne Carter: Cuts That Kill: The Senate Must Restore Global Health Funding Joanne Carter 2011
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Here is a TED talk recorded in February, 2008, in which Lisi unenviably attempts to get us up to speed on his unified field theory in just 18 minutes.
Own the universe - and a piece of Second Life - in Real Life Bettina Tizzy 2009
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Here is a TED talk recorded in February, 2008, in which Lisi unenviably attempts to get us up to speed on his unified field theory in just 18 minutes.
Archive 2009-04-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
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Here is a TED talk recorded in February, 2008, in which Lisi unenviably attempts to get us up to speed on his unified field theory in just 18 minutes.
Wizard Gynoid: "I think it's important. I have an intuition about it" Bettina Tizzy 2009
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The man who unenviably competes with Douglas Feith for the title of "world's stupidest man"?
Edwards: "Democratic Voters Have Made Their Choice, And So Have I" 2009
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Here is a TED talk recorded in February, 2008, in which Lisi unenviably attempts to get us up to speed on his unified field theory in just 18 minutes.
Archive 2009-07-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
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We are physicians unenviably prescribing a draught nauseous to the public.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922
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Over considerable periods of time, Georgia comes unenviably first, followed by Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana.
The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution Holland Thompson 1906
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In the year 1846, Captain Owen Stanley, a young and zealous officer, of good report for his capabilities as a scientific surveyor, was entrusted with the command of the "Rattlesnake," a vessel of six-and-twenty guns, strong and seaworthy, but one of that class unenviably distinguished in the war-time as a "donkey-frigate."
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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