enviable
adjective
worthy of envy; very desirable.
unenviably
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a word derived from
enviable.
Example Sentences
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Alison Hamond finds herself in the unenviably position of being up against 20-time winners Ant and Dec for best presenter.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2022
As an émigré, he finally found both the travel and the adventure he once dreamed of, although of an unenviably grim variety; Summerscale follows him, during World War I, from Gallipoli to the Somme.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2016
His first experience was bitter; his ship, the “Mars,” was unenviably prominent in the mutiny at Spithead.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
The bully is instantly cowed; and by a few words to any of his school-associates who may be near, you can render him unenviably conspicuous among them for a week or two.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 by Various
What was important—what, in the estimation of Monsieur Vicot, distinguished this hour so unenviably from its fellows, was the variety of distressing physical symptoms which, in his own person, inevitably accompanied it.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl
