unenviable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In this unenviable position, the Fed may have to choose the least-bad option.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
And as it looks for an ad-revenue model, OpenAI is in the unenviable position of competing with Google, which has its own suite of mass-market AI tools and far deeper roots in advertising.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
The unenviable list now includes 172,620 species, of which 48,646 are threatened with extinction.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025
Plum had her hands full with the opposing backcourt, and Hamby drew the unenviable assignment of battling the league’s best in Wilson.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025
He had the completely unenviable job of being Byerley’s campaign manager in a campaign that wasn’t a campaign, for a person that refused to reveal his strategy, and refused to accept his manager’s.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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