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unwished

[ uhn-wisht ]

adjective



unwished

/ ʌnˈwɪʃt /

adjective

  1. not desired; unwelcome
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of unwished1

First recorded in 1575–85; un- 1 + wish + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

Then her sense of what was "fair" made her force her eyes toward her unwished-for companion.

The imagination is rebelliously evil, often uncontrollable; and the thought rose up unbidden and unwished for.

Hermia refused to submit to an "unwished yoke," and fled from Athens with Lysander.

As woman is not considered in the Chinese worship of ancestors, her birth is as unwished for as that of the Indian woman.

They fed him on biscuits and incomprehensible words; they gave him water to drink mixed with unwished-for rum.

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