undesirability
Americannoun
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Others say the role’s undesirability cuts straight to the very heart of what it means to be a “real engineer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
In an exchange with Meg Ryan, David Hyde Pierce, who plays her brother, famously said that line when talking about the undesirability of Seattle as a place to move to.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
The index, a numerical measure of discomfort, blends thermometer readings with the humidity to describe the true undesirability of our circumstances.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2022
Browner, Chancellor, and Sherman share two characteristics in addition to their onetime undesirability as prospects: They're all tall—Browner is six-foot-four, Chancellor and Sherman are both six-foot-three—and physical.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2012
Moreover, there will be the tendency for humanity to learn, at least temporarily and as an intellectual conviction, the undesirability of war and of the conditions that make for war.
From Religion and the War by Various
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