undesirableness
Americannoun
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Now we meet all objections to the doctrine of entire sanctification— whether in the form of indifference, or dislike, or undesirableness, or impossibility—with the simple proposition, It is necessary.
From The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark
It was all just as sordid and dirty and unlovely as ever, though he had not known before the measure of its undesirableness.
From Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker by Marguerite Bryant
Our conclusion on this point is that they tend to overestimate or to underestimate themselves, according to the "desirableness" or "undesirableness" of the trait in question.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth
The objection to regulating them by law and thus avoiding the conflicts which continually arise between the buyers and sellers of labour, is not so much the undesirableness as the impossibility of doing so.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
That week, as they inspected an indefinite number of apartments of as many degrees of shabbiness and general undesirableness, Shirley's spirits and chin fell steadily.
From The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller
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