undesirableness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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All your goodness and kind teaching cannot prevent the undesirableness of letting my child grow up here, in a half-and-half position, engendering domineering airs and unreasonable expectations.
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
To increase their undesirableness as abodes for men, most of them were already occupied by mules or horses or cows or donkeys.
From Hurricane Hurry by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The desirableness of Tom as a husband first forced itself upon her attention, and the undesirableness of Ayala as a wife for Tom.
From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony
And that any man should disagree to the extent Darling did in his philosophy of the simple life is ample vindication of the Hawaiian authorities verdict of his undesirableness.
From The Cruise of the Snark by London, Jack
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 Jowett, Benjamin
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