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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

Over considerable periods of time, Georgia comes unenviably first, followed by Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana.

From The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Thompson, Holland

About this time certain gentlemen in Canada began to be unenviably known.

From The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by Townsend, George Alfred

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 Carryl, Guy Wetmore