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One lady referred to the possible disclosure of family secrets, at such meetings, which it was unpleasant to hear, and to the undesirableness of revealing the faults of a child.

From Bertha and Her Baptism by Adams, Nehemiah

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

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 Bryant, Marguerite

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 Clark, Dougan

It is true that in every stable society a general conviction prevails of the extreme undesirableness of constantly laying bare the foundations of government.

From On Compromise by Morley, John