undesirableness
Americannoun
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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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 effort that good costs to attain casts a shade of evil or undesirableness over it: we may shrink from the effort while coveting the good.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
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
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
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