unwished

American  

[uhn-wisht] / ʌnˈwɪʃt /

adjective

1. unwished-for.

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unwished British  

/ ʌnˈwɪʃt /

adjective

1. not desired; unwelcome

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Etymology

Origin of unwished

First recorded in 1575–85; un- ¹ + wish + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Elsie was extremely irritated by this unwished for interview.

From Little Lost Sister by Brooks, Virginia

Back to the mind of the girl, standing motionless where he had left her, came, unwished and unbidden, the memory of a summer night out yonder beside the flowing river.

From Princess by McClelland, M. G. (Mary Greenway)

Hermia refused to submit to an "unwished yoke," and fled from Athens with Lysander.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Wearisome night! full of spectral forms which glide in and out through the darkness, bringing from the past unwished for memories which tell us ever of what we are and what we might have been.

From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Glenwood, Ida

If the foetus dies as an unwished for, though permitted, consequence of this haemostasis, the surgeon may lament this result, but he is blameless.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin